Author: Chad Brand
Publisher: Kregel Academic & Professional
ISBN: 9780825443046
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Mark Love
Publisher: Abilene Christian University Press
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Seeking a lasting city : the church's journey in the story of God by Mark Love (2005).

Author: Charles E. Van Engen
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 172522660X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 337

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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: Bruce W. Winter
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802840912
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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In this book, Bruce W. Winter maps out the role and obligations of Christians as benefactors and citizens in their society. Winter's scholarly insight is enhanced through the selective use of important ancient literary and nonliterary sources. Contrary to the popular perception that early Christians withdrew from society and sought to maintain a low profile, this outstanding study explores the complexities of the positive commitments made by Christians in Gentile regions of the Roman empire.

Author: John R. Rice
Publisher: Sword of the Lord Publishers
ISBN: 9780873987554
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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Author: David W. Smith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781783684977
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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This updated edition of Seeking a City with Foundations, 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, readers are given a detailed text confronting the challenges of urbanization to world Christianity.

Author: Larry Barkdull
Publisher: KenningHouse
ISBN: 9781889025018
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Author: Arna Bontemps
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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"They Seek a City" is a landmark text documenting Black flight from the South to points north and west. Historical figures include George Washington Bush, an early settler south of Olympia, Washington Territory, William Gross, the pioneer Seattle restaurateur and hotelier, and Spokane publisher Horace Roscoe Cayton.

Author: Eldin Villafañe
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802807298
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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This volume extends a summons to today's churches to give primacy once again to urban ministry. Villafane lays out a vision of a church that, unlike the trend today, refuses to retreat from the challenges of city life.

Author: David W. Smith
Publisher: Langham Publishing
ISBN: 1783684984
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 386

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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.