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Place is fundamental to human existence. However, we have lost the very human sense of place amid the time-space compression characteristic of postmodernity and globalization. Craig Bartholomew provides a biblical, theological, and philosophical grounding for place in our rootless culture and articulates a hopeful Christian vision of placemaking for today’s world. He illuminates the importance of...

of that country. Place is an Amish farm, and the animal factory, “which, like the concentration camp, is a vision of Hell.”3 Place is the home one retreats to for rest and nourishment, and place is the “homes” that are the scene of abuse. Place is Mother Teresa’s home for the dying in Calcutta—“something beautiful for God”—with its translucent light caught on camera by Malcolm Muggeridge, and also Birkenau and Auschwitz. Place is gardens and parks, and millions of kilometers of road and millions
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