Kategoria BISAC: Architecture >> Buildings - Religious

Santa Maria di Firenze, an ancient, venerable Benedictine abbey (called the Badia) located in the heart of Florence, is the subject of Anne Leader s new book. In 1418, 17 Benedictine monks journeyed to Florence from Padua to save one of their order's oldest houses from ruin. Realizing that reformed spiritual practice alone would not save the Badia, Abbott Gomezio di Giovanni commissioned the creation of a new cloister, to be decorated with vivid and engaging frescoes designed to motivate its residents. Leader s richly illustrated, interdisciplinary study examines the Badia during this...

Built space is both a physical entity as well as a socially and historically constructed place. It constantly interacts with human beings, affecting their behavior, thinking, and feeling. Doing religious work in a particular environment implies acknowledging the surroundings to be integral to theology itself. The contributors to this volume view buildings, scriptures, conversations, prayers, preaching, artifacts, music and drama, and built and natural surroundings as contributors to a contextual theology.

The view of the environment in which religion is practiced as integrated with...

Le Guide du Leader Tome II

Les Evenements Eschatologiques (Fin des Temps) sont dans l'Ordre suivant:

I. L'Enlevement de l'Eglise: 1 Thess 4: 13-18; 1 Cort 15; Apoc 3: 10; Apoc 4: 1; Ephesiens 2

II. Le Jugement devant le Tribunal de Christ: 2 Corinthiens 5: 10

III. Les Noces de l'Agneau dans le Ciel (7 ans): Apoc 19: 7

IV. La Grande Tribulation sur la Terre (7 ans): Apoc 7: 14

V. La Bataille d'Harmaguedon: Apoc 19: 17-19

VI. Le Retour Physique de Jesus-Christ sur la Terre: Matthieu 24: 16-30; Apoc 19: 11-16

VII. La Bete et le Faux Prophete jete dans L'Enfer: Apoc...

Internationally renowned architect I. M. Pei commented that if Marcel Breuer's church for Saint John's Abbey had been built in New York instead of the north woods of Minnesota it would be world famous. Hamilton Smith, Breuer's longtime associate, wrote that the completed church was that rare thing, an architectural design fully realized, and he regarded it as Breuer's finest achievement. The junior member of the twelve-monk planning committee recounts in warm and frequently humorous detail how its members related to the Hungarian-born Bauhaus-trained architect who had no background in...