Shaping the assembly : how our buildings form us in worship / edited by Thomas O'Loughlin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

O'Loughlin, Thomas, editor.

Series:

Alcuin Club collections ; 98.

ACC ; 98

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liturgy and architecture.

Church architecture--Social aspects.

Church architecture.

Church buildings--Social aspects.

Church buildings.

Church architecture--Physiological aspects.

Physical Description:

279 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Other Title:

How our buildings form us in worship

Place of Publication:

Dublin : Messenger Publications, 2023.

Summary:

"Every religion has used buildings as part of their worship: from Newgrange to classical temples to churches built of steel, concrete and glass. And it was this concern of the Second Vatican Council that led to the changes in the arrangements in Catholic Churches in the 1960s and 70s.This book brings together nineteen Christians--liturgists, pastors, architects, artists--from several churches and from around the world who all address the question of how space affects us in worship. The topics covered include the role of light in a religious building, the need for space to accommodate liturgical dance, the varying needs of spaces for different liturgies, accounts of how communities have become creative with space, and about how the liturgical renewal begun in Vatican II should continue today."-- Publisher's website.

Contents:

1. Domestic ritual, public space / Thomas O'Loughlin

2. Shaped by an architecture of transcendence / Christopher Irvine

3. Shaping the assembly

a process of formation in faith / Thomas R. Whelan

4. Relational churches of the future : as the tide turns / Richard S. Vosko

5. The conference room as sacred space / James G. Sabak

6. Versus populum : a misnomer? / Paul F. Bradshaw

7. Convention, perception and interpretation in shaping the assembly / Bridget Nichols

8. The process of shaping space in one community / Judith Courtney and Peter Murphy

9. Accessibility, intimacy, flexibility and immediacy : welcoming the contemporary worshipper / Joseph P. Grayland

10. A dance manifest / Laura Hellsten

11. Return to Ronchamp : re-imagining liturgical space / Anne Dixon

12. 'A place made up of persons, faces, warm with life and the beating of hearts' / Margaret Daly-Denton

13. The church of the Community of the Resurrection / George Guiver

14. Shaping space : some examples from the US / John F. Baldovin

15. Monastic space : The Church of St Mary's Abbey, Glencairn / Eleanor Campion

16. The Eucharist Room at Carlow Liturgy Centre : the search for meaning / Richard Hurley

17. Liturgy and Australian churches / Tom Elich

18. The simple room in Carlow / Richard Giles.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-258) and indexes.

ISBN:

1788126114

9781788126113

OCLC:

1381263002