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Books in the Making -
The Meaning of Cities
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Written by Douglas Wilson
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Thursday, 19 July 2007 02:57 |
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"We know that it was common practice, not only among the Semites, to lay the first stone of a new town on the body of a human sacrifice offered to the power of the city in order that his spirit protect the city" (Ellul, The Meaning of the City, p. 28).
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Last Updated on Thursday, 19 July 2007 02:57 |