How Much Is Enough?: Hungering for God in an Affluent Culture

In a world filled with both prosperity and poverty, how can Christians handle their finances in a way that honors God? In How Much Is Enough?, Arthur Simon takes an uncompromising look at America's wealth, reflecting what dominates the hearts and motivations of its people. He diagnoses Western civilization as sick with "affluenza," or runaway materialism, and shows readers how to reject the disease and set new priorities.
Churches, social ministry groups, and thoughtful readers will be enlightened by Simon's grasp of Western affluence against the backdrop of a world where 800 million people are chronically starving. Readers will gain a clearer understanding of how money becomes an object of worship when passion for material things is stronger than compassion for the poor. Simon's life-changing book also reveals how affluenza takes control of people's lives and goals.
Without discounting prosperity as a blessing, How Much Is Enough? proposes new pathways to living as disciples of Jesus. It suggests a myriad of solutions for taming materialism and sheds light on the profound reality that possessions may capture our hearts, but they are unable to nourish our souls.

Author: Arthur Simon
Publisher: Baker Books
Published: 02/01/2003
Pages: 194
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.66h x 5.52w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780801064081

Review Citation(s):
CBA Retailers 03/01/2003 pg. 42
Christianity Today 04/01/2003 pg. 108
Books & Culture 03/01/2004 pg. 35
Publishers Weekly 02/01/2003
Library Journal 02/01/2003

About the Author
Arthur Simon is the founder and president emeritus of Bread for the World, a nonpartisan citizens' hunger lobby. His books include Bread for the World, a national Religious Book Award winner; The Politics of World Hunger, coauthored with his brother, former Illinois senator Paul Simon; and most recently Grace at the Table: Ending Hunger in God's World. Simon lives in Colmar Manor, Maryland.

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