The secular city and the Christian corpus

Cultural Values 3 (2):140-163 (1999)
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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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Defending the city.George Pattison - 2000 - Cultural Values 4 (3):338-351.

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The Inoperative Community.Jean-Luc Nancy - 1991 - University of Minnesota Press.
Religion within the Limits of Reason alone.Immanuel Kant & Theodore M. Greene - 1936 - Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale 43 (1):11-12.

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