Cities, corporeality and consciousness
Date
2015
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Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust
Abstract
This article seeks to explore the connections between our ability to live and work with symbols, our nature as a symbolic species, our physiologies, and our theologies, by examining the phenomenon of the (modern) city. It proposes that cities could be conceived of as ‘corporate’ expressions of human consciousness, that are founded on and continuously aim to purvey certain images and myths. These images and myth, it is argued, has been profoundly the work of a theological imagination. In an attempt to understand our modern (and seemingly secular) cityscapes, this article accordingly sets out to uncover some of the the particular theologies they articulate.
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CITATION: Ward, G. 2015. Cities, corporeality and consciousness. Stellenbosch Theological Journal, 1(2):113–129, doi:10.17570/stj.2015.v1n2.a05.
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Keywords
Cities, Consciousness, God -- Corporeality, Transcendence of God, Theology, Doctrinal, Eschatology
Citation
Ward, G. 2015. Cities, corporeality and consciousness. Stellenbosch Theological Journal, 1(2):113–129, doi:10.17570/stj.2015.v1n2.a05.