ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on a smaller landscape of torture, a smaller part of the state, the city and the concentration camp: the dungeon and the torture chamber. Gustavo Gutierrez's sense of theology as a 'second act' this is the time in history to reflect on the nature and action of God within those historical processes in which people were tortured. God's landscapes are absent from torture camps and detention centres that remain secretive places from which ordinary citizens are excluded. If God is there he can only be present within the theological dungeon. The biblical image of the Temple of Jerusalem could be used here as to argue that it is at the temple where God dwells and that in order to connect with God humans have to ascend to the temple. Cave-refectory-road become contemporary means to encounter the divine using forms that have been canonically based in monasteries and abbeys.
