The City in the Valley: Biblical Interpretation and Urban TheologyBRILL, 2005 - 370 pages Is there still promise in the metropolis? Can modern cities have lasting value? Drawing on a wide range of resources including the writings of Paul, the Apocalypse, Greco-Roman literature, church history, theology, and socioeconomic theory, Dieter Georgi answers yes. Our cities can become more than human and ecological garbage dumps; they can aspire to be communities where people live in harmony with one another and their environment. In support of this lofty goal, Georgi unmasks economic and political theories and elements of Christian theology that have led to the demise of cities and then advocates a new praxis of urban theology, a concrete way of living together in the cities of today and tomorrow. "Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org)," |
Contents
Personal Reflections on an American | 1 |
Socioeconomic Reasons for the Divine Man | 11 |
Who Is the True Prophet? | 25 |
The Urban Adventure of the Early Church | 53 |
Jesus and Caesar | 69 |
On Pauls Image of the Human | 93 |
Legal Dimensions of Money and Theological | 103 |
Meditations on Pauls Ethics | 135 |
Johns Heavenly Jerusalem | 161 |
Patriarchys Last Stand | 187 |
Should Augustine Have the Last Word | 195 |
The Interest in LifeofJesus Theology as a Paradigm | 221 |
Is There Justification in Money? A Historical | 283 |
Josiah Royce | 309 |
Reflections on | 323 |
On Sojourning | 367 |
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