Emptiness and Christianity--Emptiness within Christianity--Return to emptiness--The School of Things (Mono-ha) and its criticism of modernity--The emergence of the School of Things and space design--The School of Things and anti-semiotics--The School of Tthings and nothingness--Nothingness, shintai and christian theology--Kitaro Nishida's philosophy of nothingness--Nothingness and shintai--Nothingness and Christian theology--Emptiness and the cross--Emptiness and the demise of symbols--The cross between romanticism and barbarism--Emptiness filled with situational appearance--Metaphysical light and phenomenal light--Dark, light and gold--Emptiness, the cross and shintai--Shintai and corporeality of architectural elements--Body attuned--The penetrating light and the cross in efficacy--Seeing in emptiness--Beyond solitude--The sublime.