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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...

Secondly, since to be human is to be placed, it follows that place results from the dynamic interaction of humans and their particular locations. While human existence in the world is possible only in and through a particular place, place is also shaped and constituted by the activity of the humans who dwell in it. The interplay between humans and their contexts means that place has a developmental, cultural dimension.10 Place is furthermore never individualistic; rather, it “insinuates itself into
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