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Title: Towards a Christian Architecture
Review: This is a book exclusively for Christians, particularly those Christians who are certain that only Christians can contribute to the improvement of the world. "I want to argue that the built environment relates to every area of Christian ethics, and that only a Trinitarian ethic, an ethic of creation, reconciliation, and redemption, is adequate to explore it," writes the author (p. 5). If you are looking for an architectural ethics that will help you think about how the built landscape contributes to social justice or impedes it, how structures interact with their builders and occupiers, how buildings may be dangerous or protective, this is not the right book to read. If, however, you are a fervent Christian who would like to see how your religious views may be imposed on architecture along with all other expressions of social life, here is the text for you.
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