The city in the valley : biblical interpretation and urban theology /

Georgi, Dieter,

The city in the valley : biblical interpretation and urban theology / [print] by Dieter Georgi. - Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, (c)2005. - xxviii, 370 pages ; 23 cm. - Studies in biblical literature ; no. 7 . - Studies in biblical literature (Society of Biblical Literature) ; 7. .

Includes bibliographical references.

Personal reflections on an American theological perspective -- Socioeconomic reasons for the "divine man" as propagandistic pattern -- Who is the true prophet? -- The urban adventure of the early church -- The hour of the gospel : Jesus and Caesar -- On Paul's image of the human -- Legal dimensions of money and theological consequences -- Living with chaos : meditations on Paul's ethics -- Why was Paul killed? : the Epistle to the Romans as a document of resistance -- John's "heavenly" Jerusalem -- The wrath of the dragon : patriarchy's last stand -- Should Augustine have the last word on urban theology? -- The interest in life-of-Jesus theology as a paradigm for the social history of biblical criticism -- The religious dimensions of the world market : a farewell to the Middle Ages -- Is there justification in money? : a historical and theological meditation on the financial aspects of justification by Christ -- Bultmann was not first : Josiah Royce as interpreter of Paul -- Reason, religion, responsibility : reflections on the Frankfurt Tillich -- Praxis and theory in theological education : is scholarship "hot" or "cold"? -- En route to an urban theology : can theology help to understand urban society? -- On sojourning.



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Bible.--New Testament


Cities and towns--Biblical teaching.
Theology, Doctrinal.

BR115.G352.C589 2005 BR115