T. J. Gorringe

The Common Good and the Global Emergency

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Provides a theoretical and political framework of the common good, and applies this to the built environment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 621g
• ISBN-13: 9781107002012
• ISBN-10: 110700201X
• Artikelnr.: 32218143

Autorenporträt

T. J. Gorringe is Professor of Theological Studies at the University of Exeter. A Theology of the Built Environment (2002), his previous book with Cambridge University Press, was the first to reflect theologically on the built environment as a whole. He is also the author of God's Just Vengeance: Crime, Violence and the Rhetoric of Salvation (Cambridge University Press, 1996).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. The common good and the built environment
2. The common good and the global emergency
3. Grace and the built environment
4. Grace and place
5. Grace, politics and planning
6. Grace and public space
7. Settlements in grace
8. Feeding the city
9. Connecting the city
10. Housing by people
11. The virtues of architecture
12. Conclusion
Bibliography.