Author: National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of AmericaPublisher:
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
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The Church's Stake in Urban Renewal
Author: National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of AmericaPublisher:
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages :
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City Church Study Kit[s].: The church's stake in urban renewal
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Author: National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Division of Home MissionsPublisher:
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Languages : en
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The Church's Stake in Urban Renewal
Author: Renewal
Author: Mark WildPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022660523X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
In the decades following World War II, a movement of clergy and laity sought to restore liberal Protestantism to the center of American urban life. Chastened by their failure to avert war and the Holocaust, and troubled by missionaries’ complicity with colonial regimes, they redirected their energies back home. Renewal explores the rise and fall of this movement, which began as an effort to restore the church’s standing but wound up as nothing less than an openhearted crusade to remake our nation’s cities. These campaigns reached beyond church walls to build or lend a hand to scores of organizations fighting for welfare, social justice, and community empowerment among the increasingly nonwhite urban working class. Church leaders extended their efforts far beyond traditional evangelicalism, often dovetailing with many of the contemporaneous social currents coursing through the nation, including black freedom movements and the War on Poverty. Renewal illuminates the overlooked story of how religious institutions both shaped and were shaped by postwar urban America.
The Church and Urban Renewal
Author: George D. YoungerPublisher:
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Category : Church buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
A study which grew out of the 1963-64 investigation made in seven cities by a team from the United Presbyterian Church.
Renewing the City
Author: Robert D. LuptonPublisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 9780830833269
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Community developer and urban activist Robert D. Lupton looks to the Old Testament example of Nehemiah as a role model for community transformation and renewal.
The Impact of Dislocation from Urban Renewal Areas on Small Business
Author: University of ConnecticutPublisher:
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Category : Small business
Languages : en
Pages : 198
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Papers on the Church's Relation to Urban Renewal
Author: San Francisco Theological Seminary. Institute of Ethics and SocietyPublisher:
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Category : Church and social problems
Languages : en
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Urban Renewal in Selected Cities
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and CurrencyPublisher:
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 1520
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American Catholics and the Church of Tomorrow
Author: Catherine R. OsbornePublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022656116X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
In the mid-twentieth century, American Catholic churches began to shed the ubiquitous spires, stained glass, and gargoyles of their European forebears, turning instead toward startling and more angular structures of steel, plate glass, and concrete. But how did an institution like the Catholic Church, so often seen as steeped in inflexible traditions, come to welcome this modernist trend? Catherine R. Osborne’s innovative new book finds the answer: the alignment between postwar advancements in technology and design and evolutionary thought within the burgeoning American Catholic community. A new, visibly contemporary approach to design, church leaders thought, could lead to the rebirth of the church community of the future. As Osborne explains, the engineering breakthroughs that made modernist churches feasible themselves raised questions that were, for many Catholics, fundamentally theological. Couldn’t technological improvements engender worship spaces that better reflected God's presence in the contemporary world? Detailing the social, architectural, and theological movements that made modern churches possible, American Catholics and the Churches of Tomorrow breaks important new ground in the history of American Catholicism, and also presents new lines of thought for scholars attracted to modern architectural and urban history.