Urban ministry : an introduction / Ronald E. Peters.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peters, Ronald Edward.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City churches.

City missions.

Church work.

Physical Description:

x, 197 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Nashville, TN : Abingdon Press, [2007]

Contents:

Challenges

An introduction : the information gap and discerning the right questions

Pitfalls and potentials : the city as a paradigm of human relationships

Bridging the chasms in urban ministry

Origins

Looking back : ancient and modern urban ministry

Urban theology : a bottom-up perspective

Antecedents of a top-down theological perspective

Antecedents of a bottom-up theological perspective

Perspectives

Core values in urban ministry

Two spheres of urban ministry : parish and public

Seeing with a divine lens : issues and networks in the city

The egalitarian metropolis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-188) and index.

ISBN:

9780687642250

0687642256

OCLC:

85899014