Wipf & Stock Pub, Date: 2004-10-08. Paperback. New. 2004. Wipf & Stock Pub ISBN 1592449379 9781592449378 [US]

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Wipf & Stock Publishers, Date: 2004. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 272 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.50 inches. 2004. Wipf & Stock Publishers ISBN 1592449379 9781592449378 [GB]

ISBN10: 1592449379, ISBN13: 9781592449378, [publisher: Wipf And Stock] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - For over a hundred years, Anglican church buildings in every part of the world were dominated by a single idea of what churches should look like and how they should be arranged inside. Only since Vatican II has the dominance of this idea been finally overthrown. Thousands of churches still reflect the architectural dogmas of the Cambridge Camden Society. Millions of worshippers still imbibe the theology so effectively promoted by this group through its powerful influence on the arrangement of church interiors and the style of such buildings. And many of these architectural images of what is the nature of the Church itself have proved to be the most stubborn resisters of Vatican II reforms.The Cambridge Camden Society was so successful in changing the outward aspects of Anglican worship because it had specific ideas as to how churches should be arranged. The Society's infatuation with a certain period of gothic architecture and with the whole medieval 'cultus' brought about drastic changes in worship according to the 'Book of Common Prayer' without changing a single letter of the prayer book itself. The members of the Society led the way not only in the revival of medieval architecture but also of vestments and ceremonial.Though much of the Cambridge Camden theology reflects that of the Oxford ...
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