The Common Good and the Global Emergency: God and the Built Environment. By T. J. Gorringe
There can be no doubting the author’s sense of adventure: a theologian, he has taken great pains to learn from ecologists and economists, architects and planners. Their contributions should serve to keep any theology ‘grounded’. One slight cause for concern is the following line in the Preface: ‘tha...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2013
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| In: |
The journal of theological studies
Year: 2013, Volume: 64, Issue: 1, Pages: 337-341 |
| Review of: | The common good and the global emergency (Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2011) (Elliott, Mark W.)
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| Summary: | There can be no doubting the author’s sense of adventure: a theologian, he has taken great pains to learn from ecologists and economists, architects and planners. Their contributions should serve to keep any theology ‘grounded’. One slight cause for concern is the following line in the Preface: ‘that earlier world, in twelfth-century Europe, where, while the military classes engaged in power games, the intellectuals and artisans learned from each other and largely agreed on fundamentals’. As well as being somewhat superficial as history, this suggests that there will always be a ‘them and us’ dichtotomy: one is likely to agree with this book’s thesis only if one is politically powerless. Of course the point that today’s urban skylines do reflect a hierarchy of values is well taken. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/fls164 |
