God and Enchantment of Place: Reclaiming Human Experience

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OUP Oxford, 15. 10. 2004 - 448 strán (strany)
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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Sacrament and Enchantment
5
The Place of Encounter
37
The Natural World Medicated Experience and Truth
84
Placement and Pilgrimage Dislocation and Relocation
153
Competing Styles Architectural Aims and Wider Setting
245
The Contemporary Context House and Church as Mediators
308
Widening the Perspective Mosque and Temple Sport and Garden
350
Plates
405
Interim Conclusion
407
The Internet as Visual Resource
414
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Strana 107 - For, don't you mark ? we're made so that we love First when we see them painted, things we have passed Perhaps a hundred times nor cared to see; And so they are better, painted — better to us, Which is the same thing. Art was given for that; God uses us to help each other so, Lending our minds out.
Strana 144 - All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good: And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.
Strana 96 - Every breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect, is, as it were, the skirts of their garments, the waving of the robes of those whose faces see God.
Strana 118 - Standing on the bare ground, - my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space, - all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.
Strana 155 - Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.
Strana 155 - But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for such the Father seeks to worship him.
Strana 285 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.

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

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