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Oxford and Architecture [The Pugcast]

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🗓️ 29 July 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

After a week at Oxford, surrounded by some of the best buildings to be found anywhere in the world when it comes to higher education, the Pugs discuss architecture on today's brief episode. "Why does beauty matter?" and “Why are all the science buildings ugly?” are among a host of questions addressed. Tune in as the guys long for a world that builds things the way they used to.

 

Today’s episode is sponsored in part by David Stocker and SHM Architects: https://www.shmarchitects.com/

 

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The Theology Pugcast is a ministry of Trinity Reformed Church in Huntsville Alabama. To view more media from TRC, visit their website: https://trinityreformedkirk.com/trc-media/

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0:00.0

Hello,

0:02.0

welcome to the Theology podcast. I'm C. R. Wiley and I'm a pastor of the Pacific Northwest,

0:08.0

written books, and I'm a senior editor for Petul magazine.

0:14.0

Glenn.

0:15.0

I'm Glenn Sunshine.

0:17.0

I'm a retired history professor specializing in the Reformation,

0:20.0

but also a part-time medievalist.

0:23.0

I am also a senior fellow at the Colson Center for Christian

0:27.6

worldview, work for Reflections Ministries,

0:30.3

and do a few other things.

0:32.0

Tom. I'm Tom Price. industries and do a few other things. Tom?

0:34.0

I'm Tom Price.

0:35.0

I'm a theologian Christian ethicist teaching both at Gordon-Conwell Theological

0:39.2

Seminary.

0:40.2

All right, well we are in an Airbnb that we have enjoyed being in for about a little over a week.

0:48.0

It's kind of amazing.

0:50.0

And we've had a lot of things that we've done during this week here in Oxford.

0:56.5

So we're in the UK and we've conducted interviews and we've looked at architecture and one of the folks who's a big

1:08.3

supporter of our of our show and was really helpful in helping make all this happen is an architect and he's

1:16.6

asked us some questions that he'd like to have us reflect on particularly as it relates to CS Lewis, because CS Lewis was, you could

1:27.7

say the thread that, you know, wove through the whole experience here. But the first question that David asks us is

1:37.0

drawn from that hideous strength and he notes that Brechtin College, St. Anne's, and Belbury represent three aesthetic visions.

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