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Church in the city, historical context
Jeffrey Cox, The Churches in a Secular Society: Lambeth 1870-1930, OUP 1982
Hugh Mcleod, Class and Religion in the late Victorian City, RKP 1974; Piety and Poverty: Working Class Religion in Berlin, London and New York, 1870-1914, Holmes & Meier 1995
Jeremy Morris, Religion and Urban Change: Croydon 1840-1914, RHS 1992
E.R. Wickham, Church and People in an Industrial City, Lutterworth 1957
Ann Woodall What price the poor? William Booth, Karl Marx and the London Residuum, Ashgate 2005

 

New Testament background
Richard Batey, Jesus & the Forgotten City, Baker 1991
John Dominic Crossan, The Birth of Christianity, Harper 1998
John Dominic Crossan & Jonathan Reed, Excavating Jesus, Harper 2001
Dieter Georgi, The City in the Valley: Biblical Interpretation and Urban Theology, SBL 2005
William R. Herzog, Jesus, Justice & the Reign of God. A Ministry of Liberation, WKJP 2000
Richard A. Horsley, Christian Origins (People's History of Christianity), Fortress 2006
Robert Jewett, Paul: Apostle to America, WKJP 1994
Wayne Meeks, The First Urban Christians, Yale 1983
Justin Meggitt, Paul, Poverty and Survival, T&T Clark 1998
Marianne Sawicki, Crossing Galilee, The architecture of contact in the occupied land of Jesus, TPI 2000
Rod Stark, The Rise of Christianity, Harper Collins 1999
Gerd Theissen, The Historical Jesus, SCM 1998

 

VIDEOS
Peace to the City WCC 1997
Agents of Change World Vision 1995
Renewal and Regeneration Diocese of Liverpool 2001
Understanding Cities Open University 1999