The Common Good and the Global Emergency
God and the Built Environment

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

T. J. Gorringe (Author)

9781107002012, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 3 February 2011

322 pages, 2 b/w illus.
23 x 15.7 x 1.8 cm, 0.66 kg

'In this compelling and lucid book, Tim Gorringe opens our eyes to the built environment as a key place where the struggle for a just world is focussed, and where we're all challenged to live gracefully and graciously.' The Rt Revd Graham James, Bishop of Norwich

Planning and architecture have to be understood in relation to climate change and peak oil, and the concept of the common good is key to understanding how important this is. Leading on from his previous book, A Theology of the Built Environment, T. J. Gorringe provides a theoretical and political framework of the common good, applying this to the built environment. This framework is used to discuss and highlight issues regarding place, transport, food and farming, and as such explains the relation of Christianity to the built world in which we live. Exploring new themes in the context of the concern about climate change and resource depletion, Gorringe provides an innovative account, covering a wide range of source matter and illustrating the connections in modern theology and ethics.

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.

Subject Areas: Christian theology [HRCM], Religious ethics [HRAM1]