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Unlocking the Church - William Whyte

Unlocking the Church

The lost secrets of Victorian sacred space

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Buch | Softcover
260 Seiten
2020
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-879616-9 (ISBN)
CHF 24,90 inkl. MwSt
Unlocking the Church is the story of a revolution. The Victorians transformed how churches were understood, experienced, and built. Initially controversial, this revolution was so successful that it has now been forgotten. Yet it still shapes our experience of church buildings and also helps make sense of what we should do with them now.
The Victorians built tens of thousands of churches in the hundred years between 1800 and 1900. Wherever you might be in the English-speaking world, you will be close to a Victorian built or remodelled ecclesiastical building. Contemporary experience of church buildings is almost entirely down to the zeal of Victorians such as John Henry Newman, Henry Wilberforce and Augustus Pugin, and their ideas about the role of architecture in our spiritual life and well-being.

In Unlocking the Church, William Whyte explores a forgotten revolution in social and architectural history and in the history of the Church. He details the architectural and theological debates of the day, explaining how the Tractarians of Oxford and the Ecclesiologists of Cambridge were embroiled in the aesthetics of architecture, and how the Victorians profoundly changed the ways in which buildings were understood and experienced. No longer mere receptacles for worship, churches became active agents in their own rights, capable of conveying theological ideas and designed to shape people's emotions.

These church buildings are now a challenge: their maintenance, repair or repurposing are pressing problems for parishes in age of declining attendance and dwindling funds. By understanding their past, unlocking the secrets of their space, there might be answers in how to deal with the legacy of the Victorians now and into the future.

William Whyte is Professor of Social and Architectural History and Vice President of St John's College, Oxford. His last book, Redbrick: a social and architectural history of Britain's civic universities was shortlisted for the Longman-History Today prize and the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain. He serves as associate priest in the parish of Kidlington and writes regularly for the Church Times.

Preface
Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction
1: Seeing
2: Feeling
3: Visiting
4: Analysing
5: Revisiting
Afterword: Seeing for Yourself
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 26 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 134 x 214 mm
Gewicht 274 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Religionsgeschichte
Religion / Theologie Christentum Kirchengeschichte
Technik Architektur
ISBN-10 0-19-879616-1 / 0198796161
ISBN-13 978-0-19-879616-9 / 9780198796169
Zustand Neuware
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