 "This
is a book I have been needing for a long time! What I
find in the book has kept its promise too! We as Christians
who live in cities and towns have a mandate to work toward
making the streets and squares and parks in our cities
not only safe but humane and people- friendly. Jacobsen
has given some very helpful biblical guidelines for architects,
pastors, city planners, and ordinary citizens too. I am
enthusiastic about his book." |
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EARL F. PALMER, University Presbyterian Church, Seattle |
"The churches have been reluctant
to take on contemporary culture. Not so Eric Jacobsen,
who tackles the most difficult and hopeful issue-centering
the city around the church. Eric is a knowledgeable
guide, a practical soul, and a most engaging writer." |
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-ALBERT BORGMANN,
author of Power Failure: Christianity in the Culture of
Technology |
"This book offers one of the most
robust defenses of the public, the communal, the shared
that I've ever read. It is a powerful riposte to the
privatizing creed of our age, and it makes painfully
clear how much of our contemporary life is not only
un-Christian, but uninteresting as well." |
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- BILL McKIBBEN,
author of The End of Nature and Enough |
"Eric Jacobsen presents both an
earnest and passionate set of reflections on the city
and its significance to human spirituality. He combines
theory, theology, and practice in a way that can help
people gain a new understanding of their own relationship
to their own cities." |
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- DANIEL KEMMIS,
author of The Good City and the Good Life |
