
- 328 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I: Prologue
- Chapter 1: The Church in The Wire
- Chapter 2: Living on Set
- Chapter 3: “Way Down in the Hole”
- PART II: Encountering The Wire
- Chapter 4: Marlo’s City of Words
- Chapter 5: Sexual Communication and Institutional Dysfunction in The Wire
- Chapter 6: Realism and Utopia in The Wire
- Chapter 7: "This is Me"
- Chapter 8: Down in the Hole
- PART III: Engaging The Wire
- Chapter 9: The Ethics of Counter-Insurgency in The Wire
- Chapter 10: Keeping the Devil Down
- Chapter 11: Depravity and Hope in the City
- Chapter 12: On Naming the Work of God
- Chapter 13: “It don’t matter that some fool say he different . . .”
- Chapter 14: Earthly Peace in the Halls of City Schools
- PART IV: Life after The Wire
- Chapter 15: The Communication of the Nameless
- Chapter 16: The Wire, Or, What to Do in Non-Evental Times
- Contributors