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A Theology of the Built Environment : Justice, Empowerment, Redemption.
Title:
A Theology of the Built Environment : Justice, Empowerment, Redemption.
Author:
Gorringe, T. J.
ISBN:
9780511158162
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (294 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- CHAPTER 1 The theology of the built environment -- GOD IN THE (EVERYDAY) BUILT ENVIRONMENT -- TRINITARIAN DISCERNMENT -- GRACE AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT -- LIBERATION THEOLOGY AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT -- CHAPTER 2 Constructed space and the presence of God -- THE IDEOLOGY OF SPACE -- SACRED SPACE AND SECULAR SPACE? -- THE DIVINE GROUNDING OF OUR EXPERIENCE OF SPACE -- SPACE: THEOLOGICAL AND SECULAR ONTOLOGIES -- A TRINITARIAN MAPPING OF SPATIALITY -- CHAPTER 3 The land -- IDEOLOGIES OF THE LAND IN THE HEBREW BIBLE -- SPIRITUALISING THE LAND? -- POSSESSION -- The theology of common ownership -- The right to private property -- IDENTITY -- Trinitarian ethics and the stewardship of land -- CHAPTER 4 The human dwelling -- THE HOUSE AS SACRED SITE -- TWO HOUSES: PEOPLE AND STRUCTURE -- TWO HOUSES: VERNACULAR AND MONUMENTAL -- MASS HOUSING -- SUBURBAN HOUSING -- THE NEED FOR A NEW VERNACULAR -- (I) CREATION: HOUSING FOR SIX BILLION HAS TO BE ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE -- (II) RECONCILIATION: JUSTICE AND DIFFERENCE -- (III) REDEMPTION: THE IMPORTANCE OF IN-SPIRATION -- CHAPTER 5 From Eden to Jerusalem: town and country in the economy of redemption -- THE CONTRAST OF TOWN AND COUNTRY -- THE COUNTRY -- THE TOWN -- HERMAPHRODITIC LIVING -- TOWN AND COUNTRY IN THE ECONOMY OF REDEMPTION -- CHAPTER 6 The meaning of the city -- THE DIALECTIC OF CITIES -- CITIES IN THE ECONOMY OF REDEMPTION -- SUSTAINABL CITIES? -- THE FUTURE OF THE CITY -- CHAPTER 7 Constructing community -- THE VILLAGE COMMUNITY -- THE CITY COMMUNITY -- THE SUBURBAN COMMUNITY -- CHURCH, COMMUNITY AND KINGDOM -- CHAPTER 8 But is it art? -- THEOLOGY, ART AND FORM -- THE AESTHETICS OF CREATION -- THE AESTHETIC OF NAHALAH -- THE AESTHETICS OF POWER -- THE AESTHETIC OF COMMUNITY.

CHAPTER 9 God, nature and the built environment -- THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS -- QUESTIONING THE CRISIS -- THE CAUSES OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS -- LIBERATION THEOLOGY AND THE HOMELINESS OF THE WORLD -- CHAPTER 10 Towards Jerusalem? -- SPIRITUALITY, EDUCATION AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT -- I. JUSTICE AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT -- II. EMPOWERMENT -- III. SITUATEDNESS -- IV. DIVERSITY -- ENCHANTEDNESS -- Select bibliography -- Index of names -- Index of subjects.
Abstract:
In this 2002 book, Tim Gorringe reflects theologically on the built environment as a whole.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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