Title: Learning from the Past to Reimagine the Future: Theological - TopicsExpress



          

Title: Learning from the Past to Reimagine the Future: Theological Education in the (Former) Soviet Union Author: Joshua Searle Source: bit.ly/1qODTfz The monstrously unattractive buildings and unsightly slag heaps, which I could see from my classroom windows in Donetsk, are part of the melancholy legacy of a malevolent ideology that asserted control not only over the outward appearance of the buildings but also over the inward direction of people’s innermost thoughts. The eyesores that blemish the scarred urban landscape in this region are a throwback to a materialist, atheist, functionalist worldview, which regarded architectural beauty and any sense of aesthetic appreciation as signs of ‘bourgeois decadence’. The scars of the Communist legacy are not merely aesthetic; they penetrate through to the collective national consciousness of the Ukrainian people.
Posted on: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 19:03:30 +0000

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