New Monograph from the Acton Institute Addresses Consumerism
June 2, 2015
Grand Rapids, Mich. – (June 2, 2015) Rev. Gregory Jensen is the author of The Cure for Consumerism, the second monograph in the Orthodox Christian Social Thought Series is now available from the Acton Institute.
Since the onset of the Industrial Revolution, there has been a rapid growth of human flourishing, but critics of the market economy have argued that these improvements have led to consumerism and rampant materialism. This monograph will explore the possible cures for consumerism. Can society actively choose to consume less? Does our economic system need a complete overhaul? Rev. Jensen will explore these possibilities, synthesizing insights from the spiritual tradition of the Eastern Orthodox Church with modern social science. This monograph will offer practical solutions to consumerism, putting both faith and economic freedom to work for the common good.
The Rev. Gregory Jensen is a social scientist specializing in religion and personality theory. Currently he is the interim pastor of St Ignatius Orthodox Church in Madison, WI and Orthodox Chaplain at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He blogs at Koinonia and the American Orthodox Institute. In 2013, he was a Lone Mountain Fellow with the Bozeman, Mont.-based Property and Environmental Research Center (PERC).
This monograph is available as an eBook or a softcover. To learn more about the book you can visit www.cureconsumerism.com
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