Peters, Ronald Edward.

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.

9780687642250 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0687642256 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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City churches.
City missions.
Church work.

BV637 / .P48 2007

253.091732 / PET