Christianity And Culture In The City
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Author | : Samuel Cruz |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0739176757 |
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Christianity and Culture in the City: A Postcolonial Approach offers an introduction to the broad diversity of contemporary Christianities in a rich, complex, changing, and challenging city context. Cruz focuses upon a variety of changing communities with dynamic and striking cultural experiences, and the volume provides both scholarly and practical insights as to how Christianities in the city relate to and transform city institutions and communities that are undergoing dramatic shifts and invite opportunities for intentional study. This book offers a provocative interdisciplinary examination to shed light upon the ways in which diverse city communities appropriate Christianity to better engage their economic, cultural, political, and religious environment. A post-colonial theoretical framework will help inform how Christianity serves to empower and reinvent fragmented, oppressed, and struggling city populations. The reader is offered various conceptual, theoretical, and pragmatic insights and knowledge for better interpreting, affirming, and engaging diverse Christianities in the city in a postcolonial era.
Author | : Stephen T. Um |
Publisher | : Crossway |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2013-03-31 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1433532921 |
Download Why Cities Matter Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
We live in a unique moment in history. Right now, more people live in urban centers than ever before. This means that we have an unprecedented opportunity to influence the majority of the world through the church in the city. Helping us to make the most of this moment, urban pastors Justin Buzzard and Stephen Um lay out a compelling vision for cultural engagement and church planting in our world’s cities. If you’re looking for motivation to maintain a commitment to the city or for guidance as you consider going all in, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of urban life that informs, instructs, inspires, and answers questions including: Why cities are so important What the Bible says about cities How to overcome common issues and develop a plan for living missionally in the city Instead of retreating from or taking from our cities, here is a call to make the cities our home, to take good care of them, and to participate in God’s kingdom-building work in the urban centers of our world.
Author | : Steven D. Smith |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 405 |
Release | : 2018-11-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1467451487 |
Download Pagans and Christians in the City Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Traditionalist Christians who oppose same-sex marriage and other cultural developments in the United States wonder why they are being forced to bracket their beliefs in order to participate in public life. This situation is not new, says Steven D. Smith: Christians two thousand years ago faced very similar challenges. Picking up poet T. S. Eliot’s World War II–era thesis that the future of the West would be determined by a contest between Christianity and “modern paganism,” Smith argues in this book that today’s culture wars can be seen as a reprise of the basic antagonism that pitted pagans against Christians in the Roman Empire. Smith’s Pagans and Christians in the City looks at that historical conflict and explores how the same competing ideas continue to clash today. All of us, Smith shows, have much to learn by observing how patterns from ancient history are reemerging in today’s most controversial issues.
Author | : Andrew Willard Jones |
Publisher | : Emmaus Road Publishing |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2021-06-24 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1645851249 |
Download The Two Cities: A History of Christian Politics Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The prevailing narrative of human history, given to us as children and reinforced constantly through our culture, is the plot of progress. As the narrative goes, we progressed from tyranny to freedom, from superstition to science, from poverty to wealth, from darkness to enlightenment. This is modernity’s origin myth. Out of it, a consensus has emerged: part of human progress is the overcoming of religion, in particular Christianity, and that the world itself is fundamentally secular. In The Two Cities: A History of Christian Politics, Andrew Willard Jones rewrites the political history of the West with a new plot, a plot in which Christianity is true, in which human history is Church history. The Two Cities moves through the rise and fall of empires; cycles of corruption and reform; the rise and fall of Christendom; the emergence of new political forms, such as the modern state, and new political ideologies, such as liberalism and socialism; through the horrible destruction of modern warfare; and on to the plight of contemporary Christians. These movements of history are all considered in light of their orientation toward or away from God. The Two Cities advances a theory of Christian politics that is both an explanation of secular politics and a proposal for Christians seeking to navigate today’s most urgent political questions.
Author | : Kevin Lewis O'Neill |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0520260627 |
Download City of God Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
'City of God' explores the role of neo-Pentecostal Christian sects in the religious, social & political life of Guatemala. O'Neill examines one such church, looking at how its practices have become acts of citizenship in a new, politically relevant era for Protestantism.
Author | : H. Richard Niebuhr |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1956-09-05 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0061300039 |
Download Christ and Culture Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This 50th-anniversary edition, with a new foreword by the distinguished historian Martin E. Marty, who regards this book as one of the most vital books of our time, as well as an introduction by the author never before included in the book, and a new preface by James Gustafson, the premier Christian ethicist who is considered Niebuhr’s contemporary successor, poses the challenge of being true to Christ in a materialistic age to an entirely new generation of Christian readers.
Author | : Christopher Dawson |
Publisher | : CUA Press |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1998-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813209145 |
Download Christianity and European Culture (Selections from the Work of Christopher Dawson) Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the development of Dawson's thinking on questions that remain of contemporary importance
Author | : Seton Hall University |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2013-01-14 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781465212764 |
Download Christianity and Culture in Dialogue Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : James Montgomery Boice |
Publisher | : Intervarsity Press |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780830819874 |
Download Two Cities, Two Loves Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Deeply biblical in argument, thoroughly conversant with contemporary culture and informed by personal involvement in urban ministry, James Montgomery Boice speaks with challenge and encouragement to Christians in the midst of turbulent times.
Author | : David W. Smith |
Publisher | : Langham Publishing |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2019-03-31 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1783684984 |
Download Seeking a City with Foundations Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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.