Main entry:

Daelemans, Bert, author.

Title & Author:

Spiritus loci : a theological method for contemporary church architecture / by Bert Daelemans, S.J.

Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]

Description:

xx, 398 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Studies in religion and the arts, 1877-3192 ; volume 9

Notes:
Originally published as doctoral dissertation KU Leuven, 2013, under the title: Spiritus loci: a threefold method for the theological assessment of contemporary church architecture.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foundations -- Theotopy -- Architecture and Theology -- What? Limits that Create Space -- Biblical Foundations. Tent, Temple, Ecclesia -- Patristic Foundations. Mystagogic space -- Ignatian Foundations. Compositio loci -- Why? The Intertwining of Theology and Architecture -- Spatial Turn. A Theology of Prepositions and Conjunctions -- Theological Turn. Possibility of a Theology of Architecture -- Aesthetic Turn. Architecture and Theological Aesthetics -- How? The Itinerary in Deum from Place To Spirit -- In Search of Lost Space. A Space Odyssey -- In Search of A Method Synaesthetic, Keiygmatic, Eucharistic -- In Search Of Classics. Chapels, Cathedrals, and Churches -- Fifty Shades Of Gray -- Status Quaestionis -- 20th-century Domus Ecclesiae: Architecture of Immanence -- Naked before God -- Christian Genius Loci -- Non-Church -- Case Studies: Three Precursors of the Fifties -- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Architecture of Transcendence -- Good: To Look Like a Church -- Bad: No Place for God -- Ugly as Sin -- Case Study: The Jubilee Church, Rome (2003) -- 21st-century Templum Spiritus: Immanent Transcendence -- Sacramental Enchantment -- Kinetic Dynamism -- Constructing the Ineffable -- Case Studies: Three Precursors of the Eighties -- What is Needed Today; Mystagogic Space -- Mystagogic Space -- Synaesthetic Space: Space and Light -- Approaching a Church-Approaching the Mystery -- Perceiving Limits that Create Space -- Space. Chapel of Reconciliation, Berlin (2000) -- Light. Chapel of St Ignatius, Seattle (1997) -- Body Scan? Architecture and Phenomenology -- Space. Saturated Atmosphere -- Light. Expressed World -- Spiritus Loci as Expansion for the Body: Space and Light -- Kerygmatic Space: Word and Image Entering a Church -- Entering the Mystery -- Interpreting Symbols that Mediate Meaning -- Word. Cathedral of Christ the Light, Oakland (2008) -- Image. Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, Los Angeles (2002) -- Da Vinci Code? Architecture and Hermeneutics -- Word. Symbolic Play -- Image. Sacred Emptiness -- Spiritus Loci as Expression for the Mind: Word and Image -- Eucharistic Space: Dance and Garden Appropriating a Church -- Appropriating the Mystery -- Celebrating Mysteries that Embody Hope -- Dance. St Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church, San Francisco (1995) -- Garden. Church of St François de Molitor, Paris (2005) -- Versus Orientem? Architecture and Eschatology -- Dance. Body-Building -- Garden. Oriented Communion -- Spiritus Loci as Expectation for the Community: Dance and Garden.

ISBN:

9789004285354 (hardback ; acid-free paper)
9004285350 (hardback ; acid-free paper)
(e-book)
9789004285361

Subject:

Church architecture.
Symbolism in architecture.
Theology.
Architecture chrétienne.
Symbolisme en architecture.
Théologie.
churches (buildings)
theology.

Added entries:

Studies in religion and the arts ; v. 9.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 289119
Call No.: BIB 231354
Status: Available