In Spaces for the Sacred, Philip Sheldrake brilliantly reveals the
connection between our rootedness in the places we inhabit and the
construction of our personal and religious identities. Based on the
prestigious Hulsean Lectures he delivered at the University of
Cambridge, Sheldrake's book examines the sacred narratives which
derive from both overtly religious sites such as cathedrals, and
secular ones, like the Millennium Dome, and it suggests how
Christian theological and spiritual traditions may contribute
creatively to current debates about place.
"Philip Sheldrake has enriched and deepened the idea of place by
bringing history, cultural studies, geography, various human
sciences, and literature together with theology and spirituality.
He manages to do justice to the particularity of place in its many
dimensions, and to connect in an accessible style with ordinary
personal and social life in the twenty-first century. Above all he
helps readers to identify and 'position' themselves in relation to
the places in their lives, and to open up new possibilities of
inhabiting them." -- David F. Ford, Regius Professor of Divinity,
University of Cambridge
"'To be a person, ' Philip Sheldrake tells us, quoting the
philosopher Heidegger, is literally to 'be there, ' Dasein, thus to
be in a particular place. Drawing on a wide range of writers, from
Duns Scotus to Simon Schama, as well as on poetry and his memories
of his own childhood in Dorset, Sheldrake offers a rich and
original way of meditating on the importance of place and places in
our lives." -- Fergus Kerr, OP, Regent of Studies, Blackfriars,
Oxford
"At a time when -- in the modern metropolis -- time has been
usurped byspace, and space has become everywhere the same, the same
fluorescent lit shopping malls and suburban lawns, Philip
Sheldrake's Hulsean Lectures seek to reclaim 'space' as a
fundamental Christian category, as the space which God makes in
coming to us at a particular time and place. Inspired by Duns
Scotus and Michel de Certeau, and the Ignatian Exercises, Sheldrake
explores the tensions in Christian tradition between the particular
and the universal stability and pilgrimage, the places we inhabit
and from which we must depart. This gently passionate book will be
welcomed by all concerned with traversing the modern city, and who
wish to journey with the man who made space for others, but had
nowhere to lay his head." -- Gerard Loughlin, Senior Lecturer in
Religious Studies, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
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