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.
2004004753
Bible.--New Testament
Cities and towns--Biblical teaching. Theology, Doctrinal.