Christian Faith and the World Economy Today: A Study Document from the World Council of Churches

Contents: Preface; Jesus in His Christ Experience; The First World: Galilee and Jerusalem; Into Mediterranean Dispersion; In the Cares of New Testament Scholarship; In the Ebbing of 'Ecclesiastical Polity' -- with the Heirs of Richard Hooker; Amid the Irony of 'Kindly Light' -- with John Henry Newman; Through the Reach of Poetic Doubt -- with Robert Browning; Down Among the Human Dregs -- with William Faulkner; In the Pride and Prejudice of Empire -- with Rudyard Kipling; At the Madman's Bell Ringing the Death of God -- with Friedrich Nietzsche; In the Homo-Erotic World -- with Oscar Wilde and De Profundis; Christ-Learning as Personal Crisis; Index of Names and Terms; Index of Themes; Scriptural Citations.