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9780664253158

Envisioning the New City

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    9780664253158

  • ISBN10:

    0664253156

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1992-08-01
  • Publisher: Westminster John Knox Pr
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This book compiles essays by over thirty urban pastors, community organizers, seminary professors, and church leaders. Their essays seek to present creative opportunities for urban ministries to bring hope and renewal to their congregations and communities.

Table of Contents

Foreword 13(4)
Harvey Cox
Acknowledgments 17(2)
Introduction: Teaching Ourselves the City 19(12)
Eleanor Scott Meyers
PART ONE: CITIES AND THE CHURCH: FAITH, THE BIBLE, AND STRATEGY
Bricks Without Straw: Ministry in the City
31(13)
Donna Schaper
The Second Reformation Has Begun
44(20)
Jim Wallis
Pastor, Priest, Organizer: Leadership in Community Ministries
64(13)
David Mann
PART TWO: URBAN NORTH AMERICA IN THE 1990s: THE CONTEXT FOR MINISTRY
A Home for the Homeless
77(3)
James P. Stobaugh
The New Urban Reality: Hope for a Remnant
80(10)
Clinton E. Stockwell
Whatever Happened to the Golden Rule?
90(8)
James A. Forbes, Jr.
Racism and Drugs in the City: The Church's Call to Ministry
98(11)
Hal Joseph Recinos
Poverty: The Urban-Rural Linkages
109(16)
Gary E. Farley
Older Women in the City
125(20)
Elizabeth W. Markson
PART THREE: PASTORAL DIMENSIONS OF MINISTRY IN CITIES
The New Spirituality and Empowerment
Church and City: African American Christianity's Ministry
145(7)
Robert Michael Franklin
The City as Battered Woman
152(4)
Letty Russell
Ritual Expression in the Urban Church
156(12)
Janet Walton
Eleanor Scott Meyers
Public Ministry: Chronicles of Capacity Building
168(14)
Philip Amerson
Looking for God in the City: A Meditation
182(8)
Barbara Brown Taylor
A Lesson on Urban Spirituality
190(15)
Valerie E. Russell
Ethical Foundations for Urban Ministry Strategies
A Health Crisis and a Healing Ministry
205(16)
Kent C. Miller
Janice L. Burggrabe
The Feminization of Poverty: Challenge for the Church
221(14)
Dennis Hollinger
Joseph Modica
The Urban Congregation and Public Policy
235(15)
Katie Day
What We Owe Women and Children: Reflections on the Church and Economic Justice
250(18)
Carol S. Robb
The Uprooted Poor: Mandate for Mission
268(7)
Valerie E. Russell
Fighting AIDS and HIV Together
275(20)
William A. Doubleday
Suki Terada Ports
PART FOUR: CASE STUDIES OF CONGREGATIONS AND EDUCATION FOR MINISTRY
Local Ministry and Church-Based Community Organizing
San Lucas: Presente!
295(13)
Mary Lou Porrata
An Ecumenical Approach to Urban Ministry
308(4)
David C. Bloom
Metropolitan Ministry in Jersey Ghettos
312(15)
Sam Appel
Theological Education and the Preparation for Public Ministry
Teaching Ministry in the City
327(12)
Glenda Hope
Penny Sarvis
Training Ministers for Urban Ministry with the Cultural Right
339(11)
Tex Sample
Contextualization of Theological Education
350
Lynn Rhodes
Nancy Richardson

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