Main entry:

Seasoltz, R. Kevin.

Title & Author:

A sense of the sacred : theological foundations of sacred architecture and art / R. Kevin Seasoltz.

Publication:

New York : Continuum, 2005.

Description:

vi, 394 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-386) and index.
Culture: the context for theology, liturgy, and sacred architecture and art -- The response of the churches to cultural shifts -- Sacred architecture and art in the Bible and the early church -- Post-Constantinian period -- Romanesque and gothic architecture and art -- Renaissance, baroque, and reformation periods -- Seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries -- Architectural and liturgical reforms in the twentieth century -- Developments in liturgy and sacred architecture and art following World War II -- Twentieth-century monastic architecture -- Sacred art from 1900 to the present.

Summary:

There have been many histories of Christian art and architecture, and many that have paid attention to the various cultural, social, and economic contexts in which the architecture and art appeared. Most of these accounts have been written by art historians. Kevin Seasoltz writes as a theologian, whose aim is to relate theological and liturgical developments throughout the course of Christian history to developments in sacred architecture and art. Believing that sacred buildings and artifacts have often been more constitutive of theological developments that constitutive of them, Seasoltz wants to help people discover architecture and art as theological loci - places of revelation. 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. He pays particular attention to the conflicts that emerged between religion and art since the Enlightenment and to the significant advances made since the middle of the twentieth century to reconciling a wide range of competent architects, artists, and craft persons to the ministry of the Protestant, Anglican, and Catholic churches. Comprehensive, illuminating, ecumenical.

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ISBN:

0826417019 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780826417015 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0826416977 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780826416971 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Liturgy and architecture.
Church architecture.
Christian art and symbolism.
Religious architecture.
Christian art and symbolism History.
Liturgie et architecture.
Architecture religieuse.
Art chrétien Histoire.
Architecture chrétienne.
churches (buildings)
religious buildings.
Religious subjects depicted in art.
Christian theology.
Art and Design.
Christliche Ikonographie.
Sakralbau
Architektur
Christliche Kunst
Ikonographie
Kunst
Liturgie
Theologie
Kerkgebouwen.

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 241615
Call No.: BIB 171477
Status: Available