Spatial Studies

Architecture and Design

Ballantyne, Andrew. Architecture: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Bergmann, Sigurd, ed. Theology in Built Environments: Exploring Religion, Architecture and Design. London: Routledge, 2009.

Thompson, Ian. Landscape Architecture: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Theology and Place

Bartholomew, Craig G. Where Mortals Dwell: A Christian View of Place for Today. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2011.*

Gorringe, T. J. A Theology of the Built Environment: Justice, Empowerment, Redemption. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.*

Hjalmarson, Leonard. No Home Like Place: A Christian Theology of Place. 2nd ed. Skyforest, CA: Urban Loft Publishers, 2015.*

Inge, John. A Christian Theology of Place. Burlington, VT: Routledge, 2003.*

Morice-Brubaker, Sarah. The Place of the Spirit: Toward a Trinitarian Theology of Location. Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2013.*

Rae, Murray A. Architecture and Theology: The Art of Place. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2017.*

Sheldrake, Philip. Spaces for the Sacred: Place, Memory, and Identity. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.*

Westhelle, Vítor. Eschatology and Space: The Lost Dimension in Theology Past and Present. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.*

Urban Studies

Davey, Andrew. Urban Christianity and Global Order: Theological Resources for an Urban Future. London: SPCK, 2001.*

Graham, Elaine, and Stephen Lowe. What Makes a Good City?: Public Theology and the Urban Church. London: Darton,Longman & Todd, 2009.*

Jacobsen, Eric O. The Space Between: A Christian Engagement with the Built Environment. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2012.*

Jacobsen, Eric O., and Eugene H. Peterson. Sidewalks in the Kingdom: New Urbanism and the Christian Faith. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos, 2003.*

Northcott, Michael, ed. Urban Theology: A Reader. Herndon, VA: Continuum International, 1998.*

Sheldrake, Philip. The Spiritual City: Theology, Spirituality, and the Urban. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.*

Engen, Charles Van, and Jude Tiersma, eds. God So Loves the City: Seeking a Theology for Urban Mission. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2009.*

Toly, Noah J., and Gene L. Green. Cities of Tomorrow and the City to Come: A Theology of Urban Life. Ordinary Theology Series. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2015.*


*Refers to those written from a Christian perspective.