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Contents Editor’s Foreword ix Preface xiii Acknowledgments xvii I. The Word Redescribing the World 1. A Text That Redescribes 3 2. Proclamatory Confrontations 20 3. A Fresh Performance amid a Failed Script 45 4. Faith at the Nullpunkt 59 II. The Word Redefining the Possible 5. The City in Biblical Perspective: Failed and Possible 75 6. Evangelism and Discipleship: The God Who Calls, The God Who Sends 92 7. Options for Creatureliness: Consumer or Citizen 114 8. Ecumenism as the Shared Practice of a Peculiar Identity 138 III.The Word Shaping a Community of Discipleship 9. Vision for a New Church and a New Century: Part I: Homework against Scarcity 157 10. Vision for a New Church and a New Century: Part II: Holiness Becomes Generosity 177 11. Patriotism for Citizens of the Penultimate Superpower 198 Abbreviations 212 Notes 213 Index of Names 229 Index of Biblical References 231 vii ...

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