The Professor of Theology in Durham has produced another fascinating and deeply learned study, this time on human experience.

George Newlands, The Journal of Theological Studies

every page is stimulating... It is easily the most rewarding and invigorating book I have read this year.

David Stancliffe, Church Times

David Brown argues for the importance of experience of God as mediated through place in all its variety. He explores the various ways in which such experiences once formed an essential element in making religion integral to human life, and argues for their reinstatement at the centre of theological discussions about the existence of God. In effect, the discussion continues the theme of Brown's two much-praised earlier volumes, Tradition and Imagination and Discipleship and Imagination, in its advocacy of the need for Christian theology to take much more seriously its relationship with the various wider cultures in which it has been set. In its challenge to conventional philosophy of religion, the book will be of interest to theologians and philosophers, and also to historians of art and culture generally.
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David Brown argues that it is important to experience God through place in all its variety - nature, landscape art, architecture (both secular and sacred, historical and modern), gardens, sports venues, pilgrimage, maps, and town planning. Religious consciousness in cultural and artistic contexts reinvigorates debates concerning the existence of God.
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Introduction ; 1. Sacrament and Enchantment: Re-conceiving the Sacramental ; 2. The Place of Encounter: Icons of Transcendence and Renaissance Immanence ; 3. The Natural World: Mediated Experience and Truth ; 4. Placement and Pilgrimage: Dislocation and Relocation ; 5. Competing Styles: Architectural Aims and Wider Setting ; 6. The Contemporary Context: House and Church as Mediators ; 7. Widening the Perspective: Mosque and Temple, Sport and Garden
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`The book in general is strong on the phenomenolgy: good in its placing of styles in their socio-historical context, and often extremely successful at conveying the rationale behind some feature of an image or building.' TLS
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Puts forward a controversial claim about the importance of experience of place as a way of reinvigorating the debate about the existence of God Covers a wide range of topics, from architecture and landscape art to gardens, sports venues, and urban planning Discusses the ancient world, Hinduism, and Islam as well as Christianity
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David Brown is Van Mildert Professor of Divinity in the Durham University.
Puts forward a controversial claim about the importance of experience of place as a way of reinvigorating the debate about the existence of God Covers a wide range of topics, from architecture and landscape art to gardens, sports venues, and urban planning Discusses the ancient world, Hinduism, and Islam as well as Christianity
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780199271986
Publisert
2004-10-14
Utgiver
Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press
Vekt
698 gr
Høyde
220 mm
Bredde
142 mm
Dybde
26 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
448

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David Brown is Van Mildert Professor of Divinity in the Durham University.