Research Catalog

Title

Corners in the city of God : theology, philosophy, and The wire / edited by Jonathan Tran and Myles Werntz.

Publication

Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, [2013]

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Additional Authors

• Werntz, Myles
• Tran, Jonathan

Description

xii, 315 pages; 23 cm

Summary

David Simon's "The Wire" lays out before us a city in which people struggle under the weight of poverty, political corruption, economic despair, educational collapse, and the drug trade. This volume explores the various theological, ethical, and philosophical challenges presented by "The Wire". As each season of "The Wire" unfolds, the moral complexities of life in the city deepen, as the failures of one system have unforeseen effects in other corners of the city. Fleshing out the ongoing tension between the "earthly city" and the City of God, "Corners in the City of God" is a theological companion to David Simon's masterpiece, inviting the reader to wrestle with the implications of belonging fully to the cities of the world, in all of their splendor and tragedy. -- From publisher's description.

Subject

• Wire (Television program)
• The Wire Fernsehsendung
• Television broadcasting > Christianity
• Christentum
• Ethik
• Religion

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The church in The wire : prophetic witness as a prop in urban America / James H. Coston -- Living on set : a year spent living and working in Baltimore City / Whitney Johnson -- "Way down in the hole" : systemic urban inequality and The wire / Anmol Chaddha and William Julius Wilson -- Marlo's city of words : tempting a natural theology of language / Jonathan Tran -- Sexual communication and institutional dysfunction in The wire / David Matzko McCarthy -- Realism and utopia in The wire / Fredric Jameson -- "This is me" : Ronald Pryzbylewski, mis-performance, and transformation in The wire / Brian Bantum -- Down in the hole : melancholy, vulnerability, and the puncturing of Black masculinity / Joseph Winters -- The ethics of counter-insurgency in The wire / Jacob L. Goodson -- Keeping the devil down : the church on The wire / Nekeisha Alexis-Baker -- Depravity and hope in the city : Karl Barth in conversation with The wire / Keith L. Johnson -- On naming the work of God : ecclesiological witness and theological transformation in The wire / Myles Werntz -- "It don't matter that some fool say he different ..." : the pretense of Frank Sobothka's self-sacrifice / Joseph Wiebe -- Earthly peace in the halls of city schools / Peter Boumgarden and Kristen Deede Johnson -- The communication of the nameless / Daniel Colucciello Barber -- The wire, or, what to do in non-evental times / Slavoj Žižek.

ISBN

• 9781608998517 (softcover)
• 1608998517 (softcover)

LCCN

^^2013388283

OCLC

• 863078034
• SCSB-11716636

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library