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Liturgy and Architecture

From Early Church to the Middle Ages

  • Paperback
  • 256 pages
  • Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Group
  • 17.2 x 24.3 x 1.4 cm

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For those curious about church design and worship.

Liturgy and Architecture reveals church building's purpose.

You will deepen your understanding of sacred spaces.

Discover how the beauty of church buildings and their designs enhances our understanding of worship in Allan Doig's insightful exploration of liturgy and architecture.

Social, economic, technical, theological and artistic factors 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. Allan Doig explores the interrelationship of liturgy and architecture from the early Church to the present, including the most recent debates in the ordering and re-ordering of churches in the next volume that will cover the period from the Reformation to the present day.In the present volume, 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 book will be enormously useful to the liturgist, clergy, theologians, art and architectural historians, and those interested in the conservation of ecclesiastical structures built for the liturgy.
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  • Title

    Liturgy and Architecture

  • Author

    Allan Doig

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Ashgate Publishing Group

  • Published

    May 2008

  • Edition

    New edition

  • Weight

    446g

  • Page Count

    256

  • Dimensions

    17.2 x 24.3 x 1.4 cm

  • ISBN

    9780754652748

  • ISBN-10

    0754652742

  • Eden Code

    1156066

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