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Where Mortals Dwell: A Christian View of Place for Today is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

being—namely, ‘care’ (Sorge)—is here given a local habitation and not just a name. We care about places as well as people so that we can say that caring belongs to places.”104 Casey notes that the gardens he analyzes do not normally offer permanent dwellings,105 but here the ancient Near Eastern background is instructive, since gardens in those cultures were linked to royal residences. Clearly in Eden the dwelling is hestial,106 in the sense that Adam and Eve dwell there. Gardens evoke a mood that
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