Ethics in a Consumer Culture (Video)
Overview
We live in a culture of commodification. People are too often defined by what they do or own; they’re treated as a means to an end or cogs in a machine. What goes missing is a deep sense of personhood―the belief that all humans are unique, have inherent worth, and the right to self-determination in authentic communion with others.
In this course, Paul Louis Metzger offers a counter-narrative for this commodification, naming that human personhood begins with the personal, triune God, who invites us to live more fully as human beings. When we refuse to reduce our fellow humans―and ourselves―to mere abstractions or objects, we follow the example of Jesus in honoring the value of every person and of creaturely life as a whole.
Metzger draws from thought leaders and scripture to outlines an alternative ethical framework that can help us navigate a pluralistic world by applying it to a variety of pressing ethical issues, including abortion, genetic engineering, immigration, drone warfare, and more.
- Offers a counter-narrative to the commodification of human beings
- Grounds human personhood in the personal, triune God
- Outlines an alternative ethical framework for navigating a pluralistic world
- Intro (3 min)
- Session 1 (14 min)
- Session 2 (20 min)
- Session 3 (20 min)
- Session 4 (17 min)
- Session 5 (17 min)
- Session 6 (17 min)
- Session 7 (25 min)
- Session 8 (23 min)
- Session 9 (20 min)
- Session 10 (22 min)
- Session 11 (19 min)
- Session 12 (22 min)
- Session 13 (14 min)
- Epilogue (3 min)
- Title: Ethics in a Consumer Culture (video)
- Author: Paul Louis Metzger
- Publisher: Seminary Now
- Print Publication Date: 2024
- Logos Release Date: 2025
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Commerce › Moral and ethical aspects
- Resource ID: LLS:THCSCNSMRCLTRVD
- Resource Type: Media
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-07-03T18:48:17Z