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.
Table of Content
Preface
1. New Ways of Seeing: Doing Theology through the Spatial Arts
2. A Place to Dwell: Construing the World through the Construction of Place
3. Freedom and Rule: Conceiving the Law as a Realm of Freedom and Creativity
4. Making All Things New:Transforming the World through Adaptation and Renewal
5. A Foretaste of Heaven: Anticipating the New Jerusalem through the Civitas Terrena
6. Knowing and Dwellin: Considering Epistemology through Habitation and Homelessness
7. Presence and Absence: Discerning the Transcendent in the Realm of the Immanent
8. Places Full of Time: Marking Time through the Medium of Place
9. Building from the Rubble: Reaching for Redemption through Memory and Hope
About the author
Murray A. Rae is Professor of Theology at the University of Otago in New Zealand.
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