Theology in built environments : exploring religion, architecture, and design /
Sigurd Bergmann, editor.
- 314 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
God's here and now in built environments : introductory remarks on architecture as theology / Artistic generosity, humility and expression : architecture as lived metaphor, collaboration, faith and compassion / Theology, aesthetics, and the Gothic space : does scholastic theology have anything to do with the Gothic? / Trends in contemporary sacred architecture / "Symbolkirchen" : as bridges or boundary stones in a merging Europe? / The conversion of St. Maximin in Trier / Spatiality, practice and meaning : the existential ambiguity of urban chapels / A spiritual city : urban vision and the Christian tradition / The way of Christ, the way of Dao : artefacts at the crossroads of Western and Asian religions / Spatial design with glass / Transfiguring reality : surfaces, signs and metamorphoses in Johannes Schreiter's windows in the Grunewald church / Architecture for Christian worship : the emerging United States experience / Regarding the relation between church and architecture / Less is more? : the modernist headquarters of the Norwegian Lutheran Home Mission Society (1935) : an inspiration for aesthetic/theological reflection / Can churches fly? : the liturgy of architecture : an aesthetic and theological perspective / Sigurd Bergmann -- Juhani Pallasmaa -- Oleg Bychkov -- Michael J. Crosbie -- Wolfgang Grünberg and Anna Körs -- Annette Homann -- Peter Nynäs -- Philip Sheldrake -- Grete Refsum -- Theo Sundermeier -- Sigurd Bergmann -- Richard S. Vosko -- Horst Schwebel -- Per Anders Aas -- Sigurd Bergmann.
1412810183 9781412810180
2009000439
Architecture and religion Aesthetics--Religious aspects