A THEOLOGY AS BIG AS THE CITY
Bakke, Ray
InterVarsity Press, 1997
221 pages

While urban dwellers grew from 8 to 50 percent of the world’s population during the twentieth century, the white Christian church fled to the suburbs. Christians ready to reenter the urban world will find the story of Bakke’s own journey and thirty-year urban ministry enlightening. Bakke guides us through the Old and New Testaments, introducing us to Brother Moses, Sister Ruth and other biblical urban leaders. An international urban expert, Bakke says, the Bible is a “map God used to get me into the city.” He ends with a chapter on the first-to-twentieth-century saints who etched “the soul of the city.”

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