God and Enchantment of Place: Reclaiming Human Experience

Author:   David Brown (, Van Mildert Professor of Divinity, Durham University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Edition:   New edition
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Pages:   448
Publication Date:   06 April 2006
Format:   Paperback
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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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Author:   David Brown (, Van Mildert Professor of Divinity, Durham University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 13.90cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.577kg
ISBN:  

9780199288762


ISBN 10:   0199288763
Pages:   448
Publication Date:   06 April 2006
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

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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... a magnificent book ... David Brown presents a fascinating, immensely broad-ranging and hugely scholarly argument. John Inge, Art and Christianity 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


... a magnificent book ... David Brown presents a fascinating, immensely broad-ranging and hugely scholarly argument. John Inge, Art and Christianity 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


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

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