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Book Synopsis The Cathedral Is Dying by : Auguste Rodin
Download or read book The Cathedral Is Dying written by Auguste Rodin and published by David Zwirner Books. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master sculptor Auguste Rodin’s illuminating writings on cathedrals in France are especially relevant and significant following the recent fire at Notre Dame. In this volume, the writer and Rodin scholar Rachel Corbett selects excerpts from the famous sculptor’s book Cathedrals of France, first published in 1914, just before the outbreak of World War I. Cathedrals were central to the way Rodin thought about his art: he saw them as visual metaphors for the human figure, among the finest examples of craftsmanship known to modern man, and as a model for how to live and work—slowly, brick by brick. Here, Corbett takes the fire at Notre Dame and the concerns over its restoration as an entry point in an exploration of Rodin's cathedrals. Rodin adamantly opposed restoration, as he felt it often did more damage than the original injury. (Many of the cathedrals that Rodin looks at in his texts were, in fact, bombed during the war.) But while he rails against various restoration efforts as evidence that “we are letting our cathedrals die,” the book, with its tenderly rendered sketches and written portraits, is itself an attempt to preserve these cathedrals. The selection of texts in this volume is a reminder—as is the tragedy of Notre Dame—of why we ought to appreciate these feats of architecture, whether or not they are still standing today.
Book Synopsis The Cathedral of Mist by : Paul Willems
Download or read book The Cathedral of Mist written by Paul Willems and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of ethereal stories from the last of the great Francophone Belgian fantasists First published in French in 1983, The Cathedral of Mist is a collection of stories from the last of the great Francophone Belgian fantasists: distilled tales of distant journeys, buried memories and impossible architecture. Described here are the emotionally disturbed architectural plan for a palace of emptiness; the experience of snowfall in a bed in the middle of a Finnish forest; the memory chambers that fuel the marvelous futility of the endeavor to write; the beautiful woodland church, built of warm air currents and fog, scattering in storms and taking renewed shape at dusk, that gives this book its title. The Cathedral of Mist offers the sort of ethereal narratives that might have come from the pen of a sorrowful, distinctly Belgian Italo Calvino. It is accompanied by two meditative essays on reading and writing that fall in the tradition of Marcel Proust and Julien Gracq. Paul Willems (1912-97) published his first novel, Everything Here Is Real, in 1941. Three more novels and, toward the end of his life, two collections of short stories bracketed his career as a playwright.
Book Synopsis Cathedrals of France by : Auguste Rodin
Download or read book Cathedrals of France written by Auguste Rodin and published by Black Swan Books, Limited. This book was released on 1981 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Church of the Dead by : Jennifer Scheper Hughes
Download or read book The Church of the Dead written by Jennifer Scheper Hughes and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of the founding of American Christianity against the backdrop of devastating disease, and of the Indigenous survivors who kept the nascent faith alive Many scholars have come to think of the European Christian mission to the Americas as an inevitable success. But in its early period it was very much on the brink of failure. In 1576, Indigenous Mexican communities suffered a catastrophic epidemic that took almost two million lives and simultaneously left the colonial church in ruins. In the crisis and its immediate aftermath, Spanish missionaries and surviving pueblos de indios held radically different visions for the future of Christianity in the Americas. The Church of the Dead offers a counter-history of American Christian origins. It centers the power of Indigenous Mexicans, showing how their Catholic faith remained intact even in the face of the faltering religious fervor of Spanish missionaries. While the Europeans grappled with their failure to stem the tide of death, succumbing to despair, Indigenous survivors worked to reconstruct the church. They reasserted ancestral territories as sovereign, with Indigenous Catholic states rivaling the jurisdiction of the diocese and the power of friars and bishops. Christianity in the Americas today is thus not the creation of missionaries, but rather of Indigenous Catholic survivors of the colonial mortandad, the founding condition of American Christianity. Weaving together archival study, visual culture, church history, theology, and the history of medicine, Jennifer Scheper Hughes provides us with a fascinating reexamination of North American religious history that is at once groundbreaking and lyrical.
Book Synopsis Winkles's Architectural and Picturesque Illustrations of the Cathedral Churches of England and Wales: Salisbury cathedral. Canterbury cathedral. York cathedral. St. Paul's cathedral. Wells cathedral. Rochester cathedral. Winchester cathedral by : Henry Winkles
Download or read book Winkles's Architectural and Picturesque Illustrations of the Cathedral Churches of England and Wales: Salisbury cathedral. Canterbury cathedral. York cathedral. St. Paul's cathedral. Wells cathedral. Rochester cathedral. Winchester cathedral written by Henry Winkles and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Love & Death written by Forrest Church and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearing his final days, a beloved Unitarian minister meditates on life, love, and death: “The goal is to live in such a way that our lives will prove worth dying for.” On a February day in 2008, Forrest Church sent a letter to the members of his congregation, informing them that he had terminal cancer; his life would now be measured in months, not years. He went on to promise that he would sum up his thoughts on the topics that had been so pervasive in his work—love and death—in a final book. Church has been justly celebrated as a writer of American history, but his works of spiritual guidance have been especially valued for their insight and inspiration. As a minister, Church defined religion as "our human response to the dual reality of being alive and having to die." The goal of life, he tells us "is to live in such a way that our lives will prove worth dying for." Love & Death is imbued with ideas and exemplars for achieving that goal, and the stories he offers—all drawn from his own experiences and from the lives of his friends, family, and parishioners—are both engrossing and enlightening. Forrest Church's final work may be his most lasting gift to his readers.
Book Synopsis Winkles's Architectural and Picturesque Illustrations of the Cathedral Churches of England and Wales: Salisbury cathedral. Canterbury cathedral. York cathedral. St. Paul's cathedral. Wells cathedral. Rochester cathedral. Winchester cathedral by : Benjamin Winkles
Download or read book Winkles's Architectural and Picturesque Illustrations of the Cathedral Churches of England and Wales: Salisbury cathedral. Canterbury cathedral. York cathedral. St. Paul's cathedral. Wells cathedral. Rochester cathedral. Winchester cathedral written by Benjamin Winkles and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Visitor's Guide to the Cathedral Church of G., Etc by : Cathedral Church (GLOUCESTER)
Download or read book The Visitor's Guide to the Cathedral Church of G., Etc written by Cathedral Church (GLOUCESTER) and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Death Comes for the Archbishop by : Willa Cather
Download or read book Death Comes for the Archbishop written by Willa Cather and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death Comes for the Archbishop is Willa Cather's best known novel. This epic, is a dream like, mythic story of a life lived simply in the southwestern desert. Father Jean Marie Latour is transferred to serve as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. He finds a vast territory of hills, arroyos, and lonelness. Cather delivers a story of a simple life lived well and full in this her tour de force.
Book Synopsis Historical account, of the cathedral of St. Peter's, Gloucester by : Cathedral Church (GLOUCESTER)
Download or read book Historical account, of the cathedral of St. Peter's, Gloucester written by Cathedral Church (GLOUCESTER) and published by . This book was released on 1804 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Concise History of the Cathedral Church of Saint Andrew, in Wells; by : John Michael Francis Camp
Download or read book A Concise History of the Cathedral Church of Saint Andrew, in Wells; written by John Michael Francis Camp and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A concise history of the cathedral church of saint Andrew, in Wells by : John Davis (verger of Wells cathedral.)
Download or read book A concise history of the cathedral church of saint Andrew, in Wells written by John Davis (verger of Wells cathedral.) and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Cathedral of the World by : Forrest Church
Download or read book The Cathedral of the World written by Forrest Church and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Described by Cornel West as “a towering public intellectual and the leading universalist philosopher of his generation,” Forrest Church was one of the preeminent liberal theologians of our time. His final gift, The Cathedral of the World, draws from the entire span of Church’s life’s work to leave behind a clear statement of his universalist theology and liberal faith. Giving new voice to the power of liberal religion, Church invites all seekers to enter the Cathedral of the World, home to many windows but only one Light.
Download or read book Notre-Dame written by Ken Follett and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Two days after Notre Dame burned, I flew to Paris to appear on the TV programme La Grande Librairie for a discussion about cathedrals. The following morning I had breakfast at the Hotel Bristol with my French publisher and she asked me to write a short book about Notre Dame and what it means to all of us. She said she would donate the publisher’s profits to the rebuilding fund and, if I wished, I could do the same with my royalties. Yes, I said; of course, I’d love to.’ Ken Follett In aid of the crucial restoration work to restore Paris’s great cathedral, Notre-Dame: A Short History of the Meaning of Cathedrals is a moving, short piece of non-fiction celebrating the stunning history of this beloved building, from Ken Follett, author of the multi-million copy selling Kingsbridge series. This edition contains an exclusive extract from The Evening and the Morning, a prequel to The Pillars of the Earth, publishing Autumn 2020. A minimum of 50p per copy on each sale of this book will go to the charity La Fondation du Patrimoine.
Book Synopsis The Pillars of the Earth by : Ken Follett
Download or read book The Pillars of the Earth written by Ken Follett and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-06-29 with total page 1009 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times Bestseller Oprah's Book Club Selection The “extraordinary . . . monumental masterpiece” (Booklist) that changed the course of Ken Follett’s already phenomenal career—and begins where its prequel, The Evening and the Morning, ended. “Follett risks all and comes out a clear winner,” extolled Publishers Weekly on the release of The Pillars of the Earth. A departure for the bestselling thriller writer, the historical epic stunned readers and critics alike with its ambitious scope and gripping humanity. Today, it stands as a testament to Follett’s unassailable command of the written word and to his universal appeal. The Pillars of the Earth tells the story of Philip, prior of Kingsbridge, a devout and resourceful monk driven to build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has known . . . of Tom, the mason who becomes his architect—a man divided in his soul . . . of the beautiful, elusive Lady Aliena, haunted by a secret shame . . . and of a struggle between good and evil that will turn church against state and brother against brother. A spellbinding epic tale of ambition, anarchy, and absolute power set against the sprawling medieval canvas of twelfth-century England, this is Ken Follett’s historical masterpiece.
Book Synopsis Romancing the Cathedral by : Elizabeth Emery
Download or read book Romancing the Cathedral written by Elizabeth Emery and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2001-09-20 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an analysis of political, art historical, and literary discourse, this book considers French fascination with the Gothic cathedral.
Book Synopsis A Concise History of the Cathedral Church of Peterborough including the death of Mary Queen of Scots at Fotheringay Castle, and her interment in this Cathedral ... To which is added a narrative of the rifling and defacing of this Church by the soldiers under Oliver Cromwell, 1643 by : Cathedral Church (PETERBOROUGH)
Download or read book A Concise History of the Cathedral Church of Peterborough including the death of Mary Queen of Scots at Fotheringay Castle, and her interment in this Cathedral ... To which is added a narrative of the rifling and defacing of this Church by the soldiers under Oliver Cromwell, 1643 written by Cathedral Church (PETERBOROUGH) and published by . This book was released on 1782 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
