Architecture, Theology, and Ethics

Elise M. Edwards is assistant professor of religion at Baylor University and a registered architect.

• PrefaceIntroductionPart I: Architecture in Pursuit of JusticeChapter 1: Revisioning DesignChapter 2: Design as Prophetic ActionPart II: CreativityChapter 3: Creativity: Casting a VisionChapter 4: Who Is a Designer? Inviting Participation in DesignPart III: EmpathyChapter 5: Empathy: Loving Our NeighborsChapter 6: Empathic Design PracticesPart IV: DiscernmentChapter 7: Discernment: Making Wise DecisionsPart V: BeautyChapter 8: Beauty: Nourishing the SoulChapter 9: The Fittingness of Aesthetic ChoicesPart VI: SustainabilityChapter 10: Sustainability: Caring for God’s CreationChapter 11: Sustainable Design NormsConclusion: What is Good Architecture?AcknowledgmentsAppendix: Site Analysis and Existing Conditions Surveys BibliographyAbout the AuthorIndex

Elise Edwards’s Architecture, Theology, and Ethics is groundbreaking. Here for the first time, we have a black feminist ethicist trained in Architecture, Christian Ethics, and Theology articulating what architectural practice rooted in a moral and liberative vision looks like. For the first time, we could sit architectural students, theology students, art students, and students concerned with black life in the same classroom and offer them a text to think together about our work, our world, and the possibilities of a shared project of building life. This is a generational text.