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Languages : en
Pages : 138
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Faith and the Built-environment
Author: A Theology of the Built Environment
Author: Timothy GorringePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521891448
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
In this 2002 book, Tim Gorringe reflects theologically on the built environment as a whole.
Theology in Built Environments
Author: Sigurd BergmannPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351472380
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Built space is both a physical entity as well as a socially and historically constructed place. It constantly interacts with human beings, affecting their behavior, thinking, and feeling. Doing religious work in a particular environment implies acknowledging the surroundings to be integral to theology itself. The contributors to this volume view buildings, scriptures, conversations, prayers, preaching, artifacts, music and drama, and built and natural surroundings as contributors to a contextual theology. The view of the environment in which religion is practiced as integrated with theology represents not just a new theme but also a necessity if one is to understand religion's own depth. Reflections about space and place and how they reflect and affect religious experience provide a challenge and an urgent necessity for theology. This is particularly important if religious practitioners are to become aware of how theology is given expression in the existential spatiality of life. Can space set theology free? This is a challenging question, one that the editor hopes can be answered, at least in part, in this volume. The diversity of theoretical concepts in aesthetics, cultural theory, and architecture are not regarded as a problem to be solved by constructing one overarching dominant theory. Instead, this diversity is viewed in terms of its positive potential to inspire discourse about theology and aesthetics. In this discourse, theology does not need to become fully dependent on one or another theory, but should always clearly present its criteria for choosing this or that theoretical framework. This volume shows clearly how different modes of design in sacred spaces capture a sense of the religious.
Faith and the Built Environment
Author: Faith and the Built Environment
Author: Suha ÖzkanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
The Space Between (Cultural Exegesis)
Author: Eric O. JacobsenPublisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 1441238697
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
The entire material world can be divided between the Natural Environment and the Built Environment. Over the past forty years, the Natural Environment has received more attention of the two, but that is beginning to change. With a renewed interest in "place" within various academic disciplines and the practical issues of rising fuel costs and scarcity of land, the Built Environment has emerged as a coherent and engaging subject for academic and popular consideration. While there is a growing body of work on the Built Environment, very little approaches it from a distinctly Christian perspective. This major new work represents a comprehensive and grounded approach. Employing tools from the field of theology and culture, it demonstrates how looking at the Built Environment through a theological lens provides a unique perspective on questions of beauty, justice, and human flourishing.
The Common Good and the Global Emergency
Author: T. J. GorringePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110700201X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Provides a theoretical and political framework of the common good, and applies this to the built environment.
Architecture and Theology
Author: Murray RaePublisher:
ISBN: 9781481307673
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The dynamic relationship between art and theology continues to fascinate and to challenge, especially when theology addresses art in all of its variety. In Architecture and Theology: The Art of Place, author Murray Rae turns to the spatial arts, especially architecture, to investigate how the art forms engaged in the construction of our built environment relate to Christian faith. Rae does not offer a theology of the spatial arts, but instead engages in a sustained theological conversation with the spatial arts. Because the spatial arts are public, visual, and communal, they wield an immense but easily overlooked influence. Architecture and Theology overcomes this inattention by offering new ways of thinking about the theological importance of space and place in our experience of God, the relation between freedom and law in Christian life, the transformation involved in God's promised new creation, biblical anticipation of the heavenly city, divine presence and absence, the architecture of repentance and remorse, and the relation between space and time. In doing so, Rae finds an ample place for theology amidst the architectural arts.
The Space Between
Author: Eric O. JacobsenPublisher:
ISBN: 9781441258441
Category : Architecture and religion
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
A recognized expert employs a theological lens to provide a unique perspective on timely and controversial topics related to the "built environment."
Understanding Islamic Architecture
Author: Attilo PetruccioliPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136851313
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
The ongoing debate among practitioners and in academia about the meaning and understanding of Islamic architecture will be energized by this book. It contains essays by architects and academics from various parts of the world which clarify how the carious disciplines of the design profession can be employed to build in the spirit of Islam. Divided into three sections the book covers: *meaning from Faith, which draws meaning from the Islamic faith in order to propose a built environment that is universally beneficial *analysis of History, which examines historical buildings and planning concepts, and suggest how to apply lessons learned to contemporary practice *contemporary Trends, which discusses current trends in architecture, education and socio-economic aspects of various Muslim countries. Illustrated throughout, this book will appeal to students and scholars, practising architects and planners alike.