Enough

Enough: Contentment in an Age of Excess

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Will Samson. David C. Cook, $14.99 paper (256p) ISBN 978-0-7814-4542-9

Tailor-made for an age of anxiety, this volume, written particularly for Christians, attempts to address and answer the author’s question: “What would it be like to be formed by communities consumed by God and God’s vision for the world?” The author, a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the University of Kentucky, indicts Christians for supporting a cultural obsession with consumption, a constrictive view of morality and a narrow view of God. Threading his own conservative evangelical background and his family’s present experiences as part of an intentional community throughout the book, the author also uses Scripture to delineate an alternative vision: countercultural “Eucharistic Communities” that offer their resources to the world. The first chapters of the book include cultural, sociological and theological analysis of the dilemmas of consumption and contrasts them with the writer’s vision of God’s call to abundant life in Christ. In the second part, Samson offers detailed, practical ideas on how believers can make lifestyle changes aimed at embracing wholeness in connecting belief and practice as the people of God. (Mar.)