The Spiritual City : Theology, Spirituality, and the Urban.

Intro -- Praise for The Spiritual City -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Preface -- Introduction -- Contemporary Cities -- What Counts as Urban? -- Public Living -- The City as Spiritual Challenge -- The Changing Modern City -- Cities in the Bible -- A Map of the Book -- Part One: The City in Christian Thought -- Chapter 1: Augustine's Two Cities -- Before Augustine -- Augustine's Human City -- Social Virtues: Augustine's Monastic Vision -- Epilogue: Augustine's Theology of Self -- Chapter 2: Monasticism and Utopian Visions -- A Movement to the Margins -- Utopias -- Spaces of Reconciliation -- Irish Monasticism -- Thomas Merton and Cities -- Chapter 3: The City as Sacred -- Cathedrals -- The City as Sacred -- Universities as Sacred Space -- The Vita Evangelica -- The Beguines -- Thomas Aquinas and Civic Life -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4: The City and the Reformations -- A Protestant Ethic of Space? -- Sweden - A Lutheran Test Case -- John Calvin's Geneva -- Alternative Community: The Shakers -- Ignatian Urbanism -- Industrial Revolution and Urban Change -- Chapter 5: Michel de Certeau -- Ignatian Resources -- Everyday Subversive Practices -- De Certeau, Le Corbusier and the Modern City -- Part Two: Theological Reflection and the City -- Chapter 6: Place and the Sacred -- Place and Social Crisis -- Place, Belonging and Commitment -- Place and Commitment -- Place and Memory -- Place and Particularity -- The Sacred and Place -- The Function of Sacred Space -- Is Sacred Space Important? -- What Counts as Sacred Space Today? -- The City as Sacred Space -- Chapter 7: The Art of Community -- Urban Theory and Community -- Models of Christian Engagement -- Theological Themes -- God-as-Trinity -- Christianity and Community -- Regeneration and Redemption -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8: Reconciliation and Hospitality -- The Words We Use.

Costly Reconciliation -- Excluding Otherness -- Fear and Loathing -- Spaces -- A Christian Response -- Catholicity and God -- Becoming Catholic People -- The Demands of Hospitality -- Spirituality of Reconciliation: The Rule of St Benedict -- Spirituality of Reconciliation: The Eucharist -- Conclusion -- Chapter 9: Urban Virtues -- Christian Theology and Urban Virtue -- Origins -- Discernment in Christian Tradition -- Ignatian Discernment -- Desire, Discernment and Choice -- Individual, Personal or Social? -- Discernment, The Common Good and Making the Good City -- Epilogue -- Sacramentality and the City -- Eschatology and the City -- Conclusion -- Select Reading -- Index -- End User License Agreement.

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