Author : Michael S. Northcott
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 13,4 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Religion
ISBN :
This reader contains 48 key texts by theologians, sociologists, psychologists and ministers on the extremes of wealth and poverty, and power and powerlessness, to be found in cities all over the world. This book has been designed for use by: community workers, teachers and clergy working in urban priority areas; those living outside urban areas; and clergy in training, whether they plan to work in the city or not.
Author : Charles E. Van Engen
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 34,84 MB
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 172522660X
From the explosive contexts of Nairobi, Mexico City, Los Angeles, and Madras burst fresh insights on the mission of the church for the city. Jude Tiersma and Charles Van Engen worked closely with an international team of experienced urban practitioners to explore the most urgent issues facing those who minister in today's cities. From each particular urban setting, a team member contributed a story from ministry in the city. Each story uniquely illustrates a different challenge of urban ministry in the face of injustice, marginalization, and urban structures. This book brings you these stories, then retells them in light of Scripture, introducing new hope to each one. From these stories emerge new ideas about the nature of cities and how to practice ministry in them. The new methodology employed by Van Engen and Tiersma's team leads us in the first steps toward a theology of mission for the city. God So Loves the City is a must for pastors, seminary students, missiologists, congregation members, and all who are concerned about urban ministry.
Author : Philip Sheldrake
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 21,72 MB
Release : 2014-04-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1118830504
A Spiritual City provides a broad examination of the meaning and importance of cities from a Christian perspective. Contains thought-provoking theological and spiritual reflections on city-making by a leading scholar Unites contemporary thinking about urban space and built environments with the latest in urban theology Addresses the long-standing anti-urban bias of Christianity and its emphasis on inwardness and pilgrimage Presents an important religious perspective on the potential of cities to create a strong human community and sense of sacred space
Author : Roger J. Gench
Publisher : Presbyterian Publishing Corp
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 13,57 MB
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664239684
"If God's way in the world can be described as cruciform and covenantal, so can the ministry to which we are summoned in urban settings. For urban churches are called to covenant with God and others at the intersection of the places where God is bringing life out to the death-tending ways of our urban realities." --from the introduction
Author : David W. Smith
Publisher : Langham Publishing
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 26,63 MB
Release : 2019-03-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1783684984
More than half the people in the world live in cities, including a growing number of megacities with populations exceeding ten million people. This trend means that an understanding of urbanization must be an urgent priority for Christian theology and mission across the globe. This updated edition of Seeking a City with Foundations, with an additional chapter, explores Christian responses to the city, ranging from rejecting the urban as evil, to embracing it as being central to God’s redemptive purposes. Drawing from a wide range of disciplines, including history, social science, urban planning, and the history of art, readers are given a detailed text which confronts the challenges that contemporary urbanization presents to world Christianity. Looking at urbanism as a theme throughout Scripture, culminating with the great vision of the New Jerusalem, David Smith explains that God’s own future is revealed as urban, highlighting the need to identify modern-day idols as we share the gospel in cities and acknowledge the impact of global economic forces. The book also explores the causes of what has been called the divided city and traces the urban theme through the Bible to present an alternative vision of the urban future – a future in which the injustices in ever-growing slums and a crisis of meaning among the privileged might be overcome through the power of the reconciling message of the cross. This timely book proposes a way forward for urban mission, highlighting that transformation of our cities must be the focal point of Christian mission and hope.
Author : Zaheer Allam
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 47,35 MB
Release : 2019-09-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 3030296733
Even though theology does provide interesting and important contributions to ethics that laid the foundation of our modern societies, this book looks at exploring how theology has impacted on urban morphology and has led to questionable unsustainable practices which impacts on both climate and societal living standards. This is seen as being accelerated with the impacts of climate change coupled with increasing urbanisation rates that stresses on contemporary notions and foundations, as initially sparked by religion. Through an argumentative style, the author sets forth to explore the ethics of religious dogmas in a rapidly urbanising world that is stressed by increasing consumption from a booming demographic.
Author : Robert C. Linthicum
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,83 MB
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0310877350
Why is the city a battleground of hostile principalities and powers? What is the mission of the church in the city? How can the church be supported in accomplishing that mission? These are the questions that Robert Linthicum treats in his comprehensive and probing biblical theology of the city. In the Bible the city is depicted both as a dwelling place of God and his people and as a center of power for Satan and his minions. The city is one primary stage on which the drama of salvation is played out. And that is no less the case at the end of this pivotal century as megacities become the focal point of most human activity and aspirations around the world. This is a timely theology of the city that weaves the theological images of the Bible and the social realities of the contemporary world into a revealing tapestry of truths about the urban experience. Its purpose is to define clearly the mission of the church in the midst of the urban realities and to support well the work of the church in the urban world.
Author : Dieter Georgi
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 35,34 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1589830997
Author : Philip Sheldrake
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 20,22 MB
Release : 2014-07-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1118855663
A Spiritual City provides a broad examination of the meaning and importance of cities from a Christian perspective. Contains thought-provoking theological and spiritual reflections on city-making by a leading scholar Unites contemporary thinking about urban space and built environments with the latest in urban theology Addresses the long-standing anti-urban bias of Christianity and its emphasis on inwardness and pilgrimage Presents an important religious perspective on the potential of cities to create a strong human community and sense of sacred space
Author : Ronald E. Peters
Publisher : Abingdon Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 16,96 MB
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1426737025
A comprehensive introduction to the particular challenges and opportunities of congregational ministry in urban settings.Urban ministry has long been a part of seminary curricula, but a basic and definitive understanding of what students should know as they prepare for congregational ministry in the city has remained elusive. Too often it is assumed that the theological resources developed for ministry in other settings are adequate for urban ministry, but these resources fail to account for the unique challenges and opportunities of the urban setting. Ronald Peters clarifies the nature of urban ministry as a theological discipline by showing how its core values of love, justice, community, and reconciliation (among others) engage the issues of economics, education, family life, public health, ethnic relations, and religious life in the urban environment. Arguing that the city has always served as an arena of God's activity, Peters articulates a theological rationale for urban ministry that is both hopeful and yet realistic, affirming that God loves the city and its people and encouraging practitioners to do the same.
