The city in the valley : biblical interpretation and urban theology - Georgi, Dieter (Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, 2005)
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.
Includes bibliographical references.
Keywords: Bible. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; Cities and towns -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Cities and towns -- Biblical teaching; Theology, Doctrinal