Architecture And Theology

Author : Murray Rae
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1481307630

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Architecture and Theology by Murray Rae Pdf

The dynamic relationship between art and theology continues to fascinate and to challenge, especially when theology addresses art in all of its variety. In Architecture and Theology: The Art of Place, author Murray Rae turns to the spatial arts, especially architecture, to investigate how the art forms engaged in the construction of our built environment relate to Christian faith. Rae does not offer a theology of the spatial arts, but instead engages in a sustained theological conversation with the spatial arts. Because the spatial arts are public, visual, and communal, they wield an immense but easily overlooked influence. Architecture and Theology overcomes this inattention by offering new ways of thinking about the theological importance of space and place in our experience of God, the relation between freedom and law in Christian life, the transformation involved in God's promised new creation, biblical anticipation of the heavenly city, divine presence and absence, the architecture of repentance and remorse, and the relation between space and time. In doing so, Rae finds an ample place for theology amidst the architectural arts.

Author : John A.H. Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351796040

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The Architecture of Medieval Churches by John A.H. Lewis Pdf

The Architecture of Medieval Churches investigates the impact of affective theology on architecture and artefacts, focusing on the Middle Ages as a period of high achievement of this synthesis. It explores aspects of medieval church and cathedral architecture in relation to the contemporary metaphysics and theology, which articulated an integrated theocentric culture, architecture, and art. Three modes of attention: comprehension, instruction, and contemplation, informed the builders’ intuition and intention. The book’s central premise reasons that love for God was the critical force in the creation of vernacular church architecture, using a selection of medieval writings to provide a unique critique of the genius of architecture and art during this period. An interdisciplinary study between architecture, theology, and philosophy, it will appeal to academics and researchers in these fields.

Author : Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2000-06-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0226173038

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Hawksmoor's London Churches by Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey Pdf

Six remarkable churches built by Nicholas Hawksmoor from 1712 to 1731 still stand in London. In this book, architectural historian Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey examines these designs as a coherent whole—a single masterpiece reflecting both Hawksmoor's design principles and his desire to reconnect, architecturally, with the "purest days of Christianity."

Author : A. N. Williams
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199236367

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The Architecture of Theology by A. N. Williams Pdf

This is a fresh reading of Christian theology, re-interpreting discussions of theological method and considering them in light of contemporary philosophical debates. It re-evaluates the traditional theological warrants and the concept of systematic theology, arguing that Christian theology is inherently systematic.

Author : Murray Rae
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1481307673

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Architecture and Theology by Murray Rae Pdf

The dynamic relationship between art and theology continues to fascinate and to challenge, especially when theology addresses art in all of its variety. In Architecture and Theology: The Art of Place, author Murray Rae turns to the spatial arts, especially architecture, to investigate how the art forms engaged in the construction of our built environment relate to Christian faith. Rae does not offer a theology of the spatial arts, but instead engages in a sustained theological conversation with the spatial arts. Because the spatial arts are public, visual, and communal, they wield an immense but easily overlooked influence. Architecture and Theology overcomes this inattention by offering new ways of thinking about the theological importance of space and place in our experience of God, the relation between freedom and law in Christian life, the transformation involved in God's promised new creation, biblical anticipation of the heavenly city, divine presence and absence, the architecture of repentance and remorse, and the relation between space and time. In doing so, Rae finds an ample place for theology amidst the architectural arts.

Author : R. Kevin Seasoltz
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2005-04-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0826417019

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A Sense of the Sacred by R. Kevin Seasoltz Pdf

There have been many histories of Christian art and architecturebut none written be a theologian such as Kevin Seasoltz. Following a chapter on culture as the context for theology, liturgy, and art, Seasoltz surveys developments from the early church up through the conventional artistic styles and periods. Comprehensive, illuminating, ecumenical.

Author : Sigurd Bergmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351472388

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Theology in Built Environments by Sigurd Bergmann Pdf

Built space is both a physical entity as well as a socially and historically constructed place. It constantly interacts with human beings, affecting their behavior, thinking, and feeling. Doing religious work in a particular environment implies acknowledging the surroundings to be integral to theology itself. The contributors to this volume view buildings, scriptures, conversations, prayers, preaching, artifacts, music and drama, and built and natural surroundings as contributors to a contextual theology. The view of the environment in which religion is practiced as integrated with theology represents not just a new theme but also a necessity if one is to understand religion's own depth. Reflections about space and place and how they reflect and affect religious experience provide a challenge and an urgent necessity for theology. This is particularly important if religious practitioners are to become aware of how theology is given expression in the existential spatiality of life. Can space set theology free? This is a challenging question, one that the editor hopes can be answered, at least in part, in this volume. The diversity of theoretical concepts in aesthetics, cultural theory, and architecture are not regarded as a problem to be solved by constructing one overarching dominant theory. Instead, this diversity is viewed in terms of its positive potential to inspire discourse about theology and aesthetics. In this discourse, theology does not need to become fully dependent on one or another theory, but should always clearly present its criteria for choosing this or that theoretical framework. This volume shows clearly how different modes of design in sacred spaces capture a sense of the religious.

Author : Richard Kieckhefer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008-07-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780195340563

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Theology in Stone by Richard Kieckhefer Pdf

Thinking about church architecture has come to an impasse. Reformers and traditionalists are talking past each other. Statements from both sides are often strident and dogmatic. In Theology in Stone, Richard Kieckhefer seeks to help both sides move beyond the standoff toward a fruitful conversation about houses of worship. Drawing on a wide range of historical examples with an eye to their contemporary relevance, he offers new ideas about the meanings and uses of church architecture.

Author : Bert Daelemans, S.J.
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004285361

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Spiritus Loci by Bert Daelemans, S.J. Pdf

In Spiritus Loci Bert Daelemans, architect and theologian, provides a threefold method for the theological assessment of church architecture, based on contemporary case studies (1995-2015).

Author : Robert Proctor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317170853

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Building the Modern Church by Robert Proctor Pdf

Fifty years after the Second Vatican Council, architectural historian Robert Proctor examines the transformations in British Roman Catholic church architecture that took place in the two decades surrounding this crucial event. Inspired by new thinking in theology and changing practices of worship, and by a growing acceptance of modern art and architecture, architects designed radical new forms of church building in a campaign of new buildings for new urban contexts. A focussed study of mid-twentieth century church architecture, Building the Modern Church considers how architects and clergy constructed the image and reality of the Church as an institution through its buildings. The author examines changing conceptions of tradition and modernity, and the development of a modern church architecture that drew from the ideas of the liturgical movement. The role of Catholic clergy as patrons of modern architecture and art and the changing attitudes of the Church and its architects to modernity are examined, explaining how different strands of post-war architecture were adopted in the field of ecclesiastical buildings. The church building’s social role in defining communities through rituals and symbols is also considered, together with the relationships between churches and modernist urban planning in new towns and suburbs. Case studies analysed in detail include significant buildings and architects that have remained little known until now. Based on meticulous historical research in primary sources, theoretically informed, fully referenced, and thoroughly illustrated, this book will be of interest to anyone concerned with the church architecture, art and theology of this period.

Author : Mark C. Taylor
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0226791335

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Disfiguring by Mark C. Taylor Pdf

Disfiguring is constructive or, perhaps more accurately, reconstructive. By exploring the religious dimensions of twentieth-century painting and architecture, he shows how the visual arts continue to serve as a rich resource for the theological imagination.

Author : Patrick Brock,Ecclesiastical Architects' and Surveyors' Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015013178903

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A Theology of Church Design by Patrick Brock,Ecclesiastical Architects' and Surveyors' Association Pdf

Author : Denis Robert McNamara
Publisher : LiturgyTrainingPublications
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781595250278

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Catholic Church Architecture and the Spirit of the Liturgy by Denis Robert McNamara Pdf

Author : Allan Doig
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351921855

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Liturgy and Architecture by Allan Doig Pdf

In this book Allan Doig explores the interrelationship of liturgy and architecture from the Early Church to the close of the Middle Ages, taking into account social, economic, technical, theological and artistic factors. These are crucial to a proper understanding of ecclesiastical architecture of all periods, and together their study illuminates the study of liturgy. Buildings and their archaeology are standing indices of human activity, and the whole matrix of meaning they present is highly revealing of the larger meaning of ritual performance within, and movement through, their space. The excavation of the mid-third-century church at Dura Europos in the Syrian desert, the grandeur of Constantine's Imperial basilicas, the influence of the great pilgrimage sites, and the marvels of soaring Gothic cathedrals, all come alive in a new way when the space is animated by the liturgy for which they were built. Reviewing the most recent research in the area, and moving the debate forward, this study will be useful to liturgists, clergy, theologians, art and architectural historians, and those interested in the conservation of ecclesiastical structures built for the liturgy.

Author : Denis Robert McNamara
Publisher : LiturgyTrainingPublications
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1568545037

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Heavenly City by Denis Robert McNamara Pdf

This visually stunning and carefully researched book encompasses some of the most significant Catholic churches of Chicago, addressing both their architectural and theological significance. Color photographs beautifully illustrate the insightful text. It is a book suitable for those interested in local history, architectural achievement, theological awareness, or those who simply desire to glory in the visual beauty of Chicago's historic churches.