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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777627803321

Autore

Georgi Dieter

Titolo

The city in the valley [[electronic resource] ] : biblical interpretation and urban theology / / by Dieter Georgi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Atlanta, : Society of Biblical Literature, c2005

ISBN

1-58983-300-7

1-4294-1094-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (400 p.)

Collana

Studies in biblical literature ; ; no. 7

Disciplina

270/.09173/2

Soggetti

Cities and towns - Religious aspects - Christianity

Cities and towns - Biblical teaching

Theology, Doctrinal

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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.