Urban Ministry An Introduction

Name: Urban Ministry An Introduction
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ISBN: 9780687642250

ISBN-10: 0687642256

ISBN-13: 9780687642250

Edition: 2007

Authors: Ronald E. Peters

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A comprehensive introduction to the particular challenges and opportunities of congregational ministry in urban settings. Urban ministry has long been a part of seminary curricula, buta basic and definitive understanding of what students should know as they prepare for congregational ministry in the city has remained elusive. Too often it is assumed thatthe theological resources developed for ministry inother settings areadequate for urban ministry, but these resources fail to account for the unique challenges and opportunitiesof the urban setting.Ronald Petersclarifies the nature of urban ministry asa theological discipline byshowing howits corevalues of love, justice, community, and…

Book details

List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Publication date: 6/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 197
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English




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



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



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