Cities of Tomorrow and the City to Come: A Theology of Urban Life (Zondervan's Ordinary Theology Series)
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: Sometime around 2008, a demographic shift of historic proportions took place, a watershed moment in which, for the first time in history, more than 50% of the world's population lived in cities. The percentage of city-dwellers is projected to...
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Sometime around 2008, a demographic shift of historic proportions took place, a watershed moment in which, for the first time in history, more than 50% of the world's population lived in cities. The percentage of city-dwellers is projected to swell to more than 70% by 2050. While many of today's cities concentrate wealth and power, they also house some of the most vulnerable populations and distressed communities in the world. The juxtaposition of affluence and poverty in urban areas raises questions of justice.
Cities also concentrate opportunity and attract diverse populations. Five Western cities?Chicago, London, New York, Los Angeles, and Toronto?include people of nearly every ethnic background on the face of the planet. These ?cosmopoli?, and other diverse cities throughout the world, raise important questions about community, identity, and diversity.
As part of Zondervan's Ordinary Theology series, Noah Toly's Cities of Tomorrow and the City to Come reflects on the tensions between contemporary urban life and Christian theology. How are Christians to live between the already, the ?cities of tomorrow? in our world, and the not yet, the ?city yet to come? (Hebrews 13:14)? He guides readers toward cultivating two types of imagination in response: the prophetic on one hand, emphasizing important distinctions between one city and another, and the apocalyptic on the other, emphasizing the infinite distance between any city and the City of God.
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Noah J Toly
Dr. Noah J. Toly (Ph.D., University of Delaware, Urban Affairs and Public Policy) is Director of Urban Studies and Assistant Professor of Politics and International Relations. Prior to joining the faculty at Wheaton, he served as Policy Fellow at the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy in the University of Delaware's School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy.
- :introductionchapter 1: From The City Of The Century To The Century Of The Citychapter 2: Communitychapter 3: The Built Environmentchapter 4: Wealth And Povertychapter 5: Powerchapter 6: Justicechapter 7: Cities Of Tomorrow And The City To Come
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