Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

A text that redescribes -- Proclamatory confrontations -- A fresh performance amid a failed script -- Faith at the nullpunkt -- The city in biblical perspective : failed and possible -- Evangelism and discipleship : the God who calls, the God who sends -- Options for creatureliness : consumer or citizen -- Ecumenism as the shared practice of a peculiar identity -- Vision for a new church and a new century, part I : Homework against scarcity -- Vision for a new church and a new century, part II : Holiness becomes generosity -- Patriotism for citizens of the penultimate superpower.