The Golden Cow : Materialism in the Twentieth-Century Church

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1. The prophet's whip of cords -- The enraged Christ -- The prophet Christ -- 2. The prophet's whip of words -- Sons, asses, oxen, harlots: Isaiah -- Crude but effective: Jeremiah -- Bribing your lovers: Ezekiel -- In love with a harlot: Hosea -- 3. The prophets and the shame of nakedness -- Naked and ashamed -- Exposed and known -- God's honor, Israel's shame -- 4. Treasure and heart -- The social milieu -- Treasure in heaven -- The basic issue -- The good of creation -- The peril of wealth -- Corporate riches -- 5. The golden cow -- Collective responsibility -- Salesmen: priests of the new worship -- The cow is a cheat -- Sponges soaked with society's values -- 6. Properly and Payola -- The stones cry out -- In the long run -- Payola for pastors -- Partner or employee? -- Double standards -- Murder by hair spray -- 7. Religion as a business -- The faith principle -- Three methods and a fourth -- The pressures to compete -- Expansion and blessing -- A conference on filthy lucre? -- 8. Desensitized to desecration -- Unmelted snow, framed by brown earth -- The source of reverence -- T-shirts, pencils, bumper stickers -- A religion with reverence -- A profit-spotting spirit -- 9. The human machine -- Matter is all that matters -- Evangelistic manipulation -- Brainwashed converts -- A bearer of news -- Origin, identity, owner -- 10. Sorrow, storms and sunrise -- Judgment and persecution -- Values changed by adversity -- The door of restoration -- The future of the church -- A bride and a painter.