Eleanor Scott Meyers

Envisioning the New City: a Reader on Urban Ministry Eleanor Scott Meyers

Brief Description: This is a reader on the perils and possibilities of urban ministry. Contributors include pastors, academics, and community organizers. Harvey Cox says it combines sound biblical theology, careful social analysis, and helpful concrete descriptions. Publisher Marketing: "A fascinating assortment of articles about urban ministry--some inspirational, some challenging, and some extremely practical. Something for everyone."--Kimberley Bobo, Midwest Academy, Chicago. Contributors include urban pastons, community organizers, seminary professors, and church leaders.

Contributor Bio:  Meyers, Eleanor Scott Eleanor Scott Meyers is a retired theological educator and former President of the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California. Contributor Bio:  Cox, Harvey Harvey Cox is the Hollis Research Professor of Divinity at Harvard, where he has taught since 1965, both at Harvard Divinity School and in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences. His book The Secular City, published in 1965, became an international bestseller and is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's most influentialbooks of Protestant theology.