Urban ministry : an introduction /
Ronald E. Peters.
- Nashville, TN : Abingdon Press, c2007.
- x, 197 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-188) and index.
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.