Pastoral Cities

Pastoral Cities
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Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages : 292
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ISBN-10 : 0299112845
ISBN-13 : 9780299112844
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis Pastoral Cities by : James L. Machor

What has the city meant to Americans? James L. Machor explores this question in a provocative analysis of American responses to urbanization in the context of the culture's tendency to valorize nature and the rural world. Although much attention has been paid to American rural-urban relations, Machor focuses on a dimension largely overlooked by those seeking to explain American conceptions of the city. While urban historians and literary critics have explicitly or implicitly emphasized the opposition between urban and rural sensibilities in America, an equally important feature of American thought and writing has been the widespread interest in collapsing that division. Convinced that the native landscape has offered special opportunities, Americans since the age of settlement have sought to build a harmonious urban-pastoral society combining the best of both worlds. Moreover, this goal has gone largely unchallenged in the culture except for the sophisticated responses in the writings of some of America's most eminent literary artists. Pastoral Cities explains the development of urban pastoralism from its origins in the prophetic vision of the New Jerusalem, applied to America in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, through its secularization in the urban planning and reform of the 1800s. Machor critiques the sophisticated treatment of urban pastoralism by writers such as Emerson, Whitman, Hawthorne, Wharton, and James by skillfully by combining cultural analysis with a close reading of urban plans, travel narratives, sermons, and popular novels. The product of this multifaceted approach is an analysis that works to reveal both the strengths and weaknesses of the pastoral ideal as cultural mythology.

Center Church

Center Church
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Publisher : Zondervan
Total Pages : 400
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ISBN-10 : 9780310494195
ISBN-13 : 0310494192
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis Center Church by : Timothy Keller

Practical and Gospel-centered thoughts on how to have a fruitful ministry by one of America's leading and most beloved pastor. Many church leaders are struggling to adapt to a culture that values individuality above loyalty to a group or institution. There have been so many "church growth" and "effective ministry" books in the past few decades that it's hard to know where to start or which ones will provide useful and honest insight. Based on over twenty years of ministry in New York City, Timothy Keller takes a unique approach that measures a ministry's success neither by numbers nor purely by the faithfulness of its leaders, but on the biblical grounds of fruitfulness. Center Church outlines a balanced theological vision for ministry organized around three core commitments: Gospel-centered: The gospel of grace in Jesus Christ changes everything, from our hearts to our community to the world. It completely reshapes the content, tone, and strategy of all that we do. City-centered: With a positive approach toward our culture, we learn to affirm that cities are wonderful, strategic, and under-served places for gospel ministry. Movement-centered: Instead of building our own tribe, we seek the prosperity and peace of our community as we are led by the Holy Spirit. "Between a pastor's doctrinal beliefs and ministry practices should be a well-conceived vision for how to bring the gospel to bear on the particular cultural setting and historical moment. This is something more practical than just doctrine but much more theological than "how-to steps" for carrying out a ministry. Once this vision is in place, it leads church leaders to make good decisions on how to worship, disciple, evangelize, serve, and engage culture in their field of ministry—whether in a city, suburb, or small town." — Tim Keller, Core Church

The Living Church

The Living Church
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 740
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ISBN-10 : WISC:89062388194
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

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Urban Pastoral

Urban Pastoral
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Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Total Pages : 270
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ISBN-10 : 9781587299094
ISBN-13 : 1587299097
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Synopsis Urban Pastoral by : Timothy Gray

"We knew Koch, Guest, O'Hara, Ashbery, and Schuyler thrived on the gritty, buoyant clank of city life, but that they drew from a secret fountain there only the Brill Building really let on, until now. In seven crisply argued, essayistic chapters, Gray lets us see and feel the invisible paradise glowing within the visible form of the subway, the skyscraper, the tenement bank, the tattoo parlor, a heaven ̀growing in the street/right up through the concrete, but soft and sweet and dreaming."---Kevin Killian, Author, Little Men --Book Jacket.

A Church without a prelate

A Church without a prelate
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 136
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ISBN-10 : OXFORD:590245935
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Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis A Church without a prelate by : Lyman Coleman

The Down-town Church

The Down-town Church
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 150
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ISBN-10 : HARVARD:32044004869863
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis The Down-town Church by : Clarence Andrew Young

The Fourth Church

The Fourth Church
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 544
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ISBN-10 : WISC:89095954046
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

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The Church Eclectic

The Church Eclectic
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 1248
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ISBN-10 : CORNELL:31924057362315
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

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Journal of the ... Annual Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Arkansas

Journal of the ... Annual Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Arkansas
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 60
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ISBN-10 : UIUC:30112104288847
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis Journal of the ... Annual Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Arkansas by : Episcopal Church. Diocese of Arkansas

Volumes for 1942- include Minutes of the ... annual meeting of the woman's auxiliary. volumes for 1949- include Minutes of the ... annual meeting of the Episcopal churchman's association.