Another City An Ecclesiological Primer for a

In contrast to "the City," that is, The world (including the hedonism and narcissism of popular culture) that virtually all human beings now inhabit, The author calls upon the church to remember that it is "Another City" that does not compromise itself by

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Preface to the Series

vii

Author's Preface

ix

Introduction: The Dispersion of the Church in a Post-Christian World

1

(20)

An Outpost of Heaven: The Early Church as Altera Civitas

21

(11)

The City That is to Come: The Polity and Politics of the Pre-Constantinian Church

32

(32)

The Rule of God in the People of Israel

35

(13)

Tremors of Eschatology in the History of Israel

48

(6)

Jesus: The Autobasileia

54

(8)

The Way Forward

62

(2)

Rendering to Caesar the Things That are God's: The Eclipse of the Church as Altera Civitas

64

(31)

The Church After Constantine

67

(13)

The Rise of Christendom and the Eclipse of the Christian Mission

80

(13)

A Hard Habit to Break

93

(2)

Romancing Divinity: The Church and the Risk Culture of Postmodernity

95

(40)

The Inventions of the Universal Man and the Secular World

101

(11)

Fortune, Risk, and the Empty Self

112

(14)

Whither the Sweet Dream of Reason?

126

(9)

Madness, Truth, and Diaspora: The Post-Christendom Form of the Church as Altera Civitas

135

(32)

Memoria Christi

139

(11)

Mission, Liturgy, and Diaspora

150

(17)

Notes

167

(16)

References Cited

183

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Another City An Ecclesiological Primer for a Post-Christian World

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