Author: Leighton ColemanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
A History of the American Church to the Close of the Nineteenth Century
Author: Leighton ColemanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
A History of the American Church to the Close of the Nineteenth Century
Author: Leighton ColemanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
The Spectator
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1140
Book Description
A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.
Gothic Arches, Latin Crosses
Author: Ryan K. SmithPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 080787728X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Crosses, candles, choir vestments, sanctuary flowers, and stained glass are common church features found in nearly all mainline denominations of American Christianity today. Most Protestant churchgoers would be surprised to learn, however, that at one time these elements were viewed with suspicion as foreign implements associated strictly with the Roman Catholic Church. Blending history with the study of material culture, Ryan K. Smith sheds light on the ironic convergence of anti-Catholicism and the Gothic Revival movement in nineteenth-century America. Smith finds the source for both movements in the sudden rise of Roman Catholicism after 1820, when it began to grow from a tiny minority into the country's largest single religious body. Its growth triggered a corresponding rise in anti-Catholic activities, as activists representing every major Protestant denomination attacked "popery" through the pulpit, the press, and politics. At the same time, Catholic worship increasingly attracted young, genteel observers around the country. Its art and its tangible access to the sacred meshed well with the era's romanticism and market-based materialism. Smith argues that these tensions led Protestant churches to break with tradition and adopt recognizably Latin art. He shows how architectural and artistic features became tools through which Protestants adapted to America's new commercialization while simultaneously defusing the potent Catholic "threat." The results presented a colorful new religious landscape, but they also illustrated the durability of traditional religious boundaries.
The Churchman
Author: The History of the Book of Common Prayer
Author: Leighton PullanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
The Church Eclectic
Author: Spectator COTF YRL1
Author: When Church Became Theatre
Author: Jeanne Halgren KildePublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195179729
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
In the 1880s, socio-economic and technological changes in the United States contributed to the rejection of Christian architectural traditions and the development of the radically new auditorium church. Jeanne Kilde links this shift in evangelical Protestant architecture to changes in worship style and religious mission.
Liberation Theology after the End of History
Author: Daniel BellPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134545835
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Daniel Bell assesses the impact of Christian resistance to capitalism in Latin America, and the implications of theological debates that have emerged from this. He uses postmodern critical theory to investigate capitalism, its effect upon human desire and the Church's response to it, in a thorough account of the rise, failure and future prospects of Latin American liberation theology.