Spaces of modern theology
Subtitle: geography and power in Schleiermacher's world
By: by Steven R. Jungkeit
Series: New approaches to religion and power
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781137269010
Subjects: RELIGION / Psychology of Religion; RELIGION / Theology; Space; RELIGION / Philosophy; Human geography; Christianity
Description: "As stories of borders, territorial disputes, and migration have escalated in recent years, so too space has emerged as a critical concept in theoretical literature. This book explores the imagination of space at the dawn of modern, liberal theology in the writings of Friedrich Schleiermacher. Schleiermacher wrote against the backdrop of expanding European colonialism and nationalism, providing a powerful ethics of space for a rapidly shrinking planet. Selectively appropriated, Schleiermacher's spaces of modern theology can be a valuable contribution to contemporary attempts to theorize the importance of space and place in human geographies"--