God and Enchantment of Place

Reclaiming Human Experience
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-19-928876-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 448 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 139 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 577 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students of religion, theology, philosophy of religion, and cultural studies, clergy and lay people interested in the relation between culture and religion.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brown, David

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Sonstige Religionen: Spiritualität, Mystik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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

Über Autor(innen)

David Brown is Van Mildert Professor of Divinity, Durham University.