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A History of the Church through its Buildings (Hardcover)
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A History of the Church through its Buildings (Hardcover)
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The History of the Church through its Buildings takes the reader to
meet people who lived through momentous religious changes in the
very spaces where the story of the Church took shape. Buildings are
about people, the people who conceived, designed, financed, and
used them. Their stories become embedded in the very fabric itself,
and as the fabric is changed through time in response to changing
use, relationships, and beliefs, the architecture becomes the
standing history of passing waves of humanity. This process takes
on special significance in churches, where the arrangement of the
space places members of the community in relationship with one
another for the performance of the church's rites and ceremonies.
Moreover, architectural forms and building materials can be used to
establish relationships with other buildings in other places and
other times. Coordinated systems of signs, symbols, and images
proclaim beliefs and doctrine, and in a wider sense carry extended
narratives of the people and their faith. Looking at the history of
the church through its buildings allows us to establish a tangible
connection to the lives of the people involved in some of the key
moments and movements that shaped that history, and perhaps even a
degree of intimacy with them. Standing in the same place where the
worshippers of the past preached and taught, or in a space they
built as a memorial, touching the stone they placed, or marking
their final resting-place, holding a keepsake they treasured or
seeing a relic they venerated, probably comes as close to a shared
experience with these people as it is possible to come. Perhaps for
a fleeting moment at such times their faces may come more clearly
into focus...
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