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concept:gift-to-godGift to God
The intention to make something humble and free of self-aggrandizement, as an offering to the divine.
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Claims (2)
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- The indispensability of the gift-to-God intention for creating life in buildings.
- The central practical prescription of the chapter.
Chapters (1)
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- Chapter 11: The Face Of GodintroducesThis chapter argues that the quality without a name is literally God appearing, and that a necessary state of mind for making living things is to offer them as a gift to God.
Related by similarity (8)
cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edgeEntities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.
- Pre-modern voluntary exchange system identified as missing from market-based models.
- The personal God of historical religions, whose unshakable belief focused attention on wholeness and enabled the creation of living structure.
- Attribute: providing a foundation function, a text that acts as base or corroboration.
- A dimension of the environment linked to wholeness and the sacred, beyond material concerns.
- A deep, non-legal sense of possession and care for a place that prevents it from becoming slum-like; contrasted with physical ownership alone
- The ability in Elephant to refer to past events and states without explicit data structures.
- An Elephant action meaning to do what is requested.
- Alexander's late claim that architecture can lead to empirical verification of God's reality, a stance Steenson rejects.