The secular city and the Christian corpus |
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Authors: | Graham Ward |
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Institution: | Professor of Contextual Theology and Ethics , Manchester University |
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Abstract: | Abstract Beginning with a discussion of Fritz Lang's ‘Metropolis’, this paper considers the rise of the city from a theological perspective. The ideal of the modern city was, it is argued, a secularised version of the City of God: the city was to be a place where all human desires might be met, a city without a church because the moral perfection of each human being has been fulfilled. The advent of the postmodern city of consumerist desire undermines this secular dream, and opens a space for theologians to frame alternative visions of cities of erotic participatory desire. |
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