Unfettered Hope: A Call to Faithful Living in an Affluent Society From: Anglican Theological Review | Date: April 1, 2004| Author: Sedgwick, Timothy F | Copyright Anglican Theological Review, Inc. Spring 2004. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Unfettered Hope: A Call to Faithful Living in an Affluent Society. By Marva J. Dawn. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 2003. xxii + 216 pp. $18.95 (paper).

Dawn begins this book with consciousness-raising through a strident recitation of statistics that detail the great divide between the world's "haves" and "have-nots" as that is tied to injustice and violence. The cause of our consumerism a la Albert Borgmann (Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life [Chicago: Un...

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