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What worries some people about consumption (and I confess at the outset to be one of these ambivalent creatures, fat but troubled in paradise) is that the affluent, technologically advanced West seems more and more focused not on consuming to live but living to consume. The problem with consumption, and the consumer capitalism that has pushed it to feverish historical extremes, is that it has become so all-consuming.

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Significantly, God in Genesis 1 pronounces the rest of creation "good" before humanity is created. The psalmist and the prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel can speak of mountains, trees, sun, and moon praising God. Unlike an office complex or gymnasium, which have no value if people do not inhabit them, creation can glorify and bring God delight apart from human presence.

Rodney Clapp

Rodney Clapp

Rodney Clapp

Bio: Rodney R. Clapp is a Christian author and editor. Clapp was formerly a longtime associate editor for Christianity Today and until 1999 was the senior editor for academic and general books at InterVarsity Press. He also used to be an editor with Brazos Press.

Known for:

A Peculiar People
The Second Baptism of Albert Simmel

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