The Eighteenth-century Church in Britain

The Eighteenth-century Church in Britain
Title The Eighteenth-century Church in Britain PDF eBook
Author Terry Friedman
Publisher Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies
Pages 790
Release 2011
Genre Architecture
ISBN 9780300159080

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This ambitious and generously illustrated study is an in-depth account of the architectural character of a vast range of ecclesiastical buildings, including the Anglican parish churches, medieval cathedrals repaired and modified during the period, Dissenting and Catholic chapels (as well as town-house, country-house, college and hospital chapels) and mausoleums. The first substantial study of the subject to appear in over half a century, it explores not only the physical aspects of these buildings, but church-going activities from the cradle to the grave, ranging from how congregations were accommodated and how vicars lived, to how the finances were organized and musical events were arranged.

The Building of the Eighteenth-century Church

The Building of the Eighteenth-century Church
Title The Building of the Eighteenth-century Church PDF eBook
Author Basil Fulford Lowther Clarke
Publisher Alec R. Allenson
Pages 290
Release 1963
Genre Architecture
ISBN

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Gibbs' Book of Architecture

Gibbs' Book of Architecture
Title Gibbs' Book of Architecture PDF eBook
Author James Gibbs
Publisher Courier Corporation
Pages 193
Release 2013-05-23
Genre Architecture
ISBN 0486142345

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Gibbs's legendary 1728 folio includes perspectives and blueprints for such magnificent commissions as London's St. Martin in the Fields; the Senate House of the University of Cambridge; plus fine drawings of marble cisterns, iron gates, funeral monuments, and more.

The Beauty of Holiness

The Beauty of Holiness
Title The Beauty of Holiness PDF eBook
Author Louis P. Nelson
Publisher Univ of North Carolina Press
Pages 496
Release 2009-06-01
Genre Architecture
ISBN 0807887986

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Intermingling architectural, cultural, and religious history, Louis Nelson reads Anglican architecture and decorative arts as documents of eighteenth-century religious practice and belief. In The Beauty of Holiness, he tells the story of the Church of England in colonial South Carolina, revealing how the colony's Anglicans negotiated the tensions between the persistence of seventeenth-century religious practice and the rising tide of Enlightenment thought and sentimentality. Nelson begins with a careful examination of the buildings, grave markers, and communion silver fashioned and used by early Anglicans. Turning to the religious functions of local churches, he uses these objects and artifacts to explore Anglican belief and practice in South Carolina. Chapters focus on the role of the senses in religious understanding, the practice of the sacraments, and the place of beauty, regularity, and order in eighteenth-century Anglicanism. The final section of the book considers the ways church architecture and material culture reinforced social and political hierarchies. Richly illustrated with more than 250 architectural images and photographs of religious objects, The Beauty of Holiness depends on exhaustive fieldwork to track changes in historical architecture. Nelson imaginatively reconstructs the history of the Church of England in colonial South Carolina and its role in public life, from its early years of ambivalent standing within the colony through the second wave of Anglicanism beginning in the early 1750s.

The Church of England 1688-1832

The Church of England 1688-1832
Title The Church of England 1688-1832 PDF eBook
Author Dr William Gibson
Publisher Routledge
Pages 277
Release 2012-10-12
Genre History
ISBN 113455205X

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A wide ranging new history of a key period in the history of the church in England, from the 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688-89 to the Great Reform Act of 1832. This was a tumultuous time for both church and state, when the relationship between religion and politics was at its most fraught. This book presents evidence of the widespread Anglican commitment to harmony between those of differing religious views and suggests that High and Low Churchmanship was less divergent than usually assumed.

Building a Bridge to the 18th Century

Building a Bridge to the 18th Century
Title Building a Bridge to the 18th Century PDF eBook
Author Neil Postman
Publisher Vintage
Pages 225
Release 2011-06-08
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0307797287

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At a time when we are reexamining our values, reeling from the pace of change, witnessing the clash between good instincts and "pragmatism," dealing with the angst of a new millennium, Neil Postman, one of our most distinguished observers of contemporary society, provides for us a source of guidance and inspiration. In Building a Bridge to the Eighteenth Century he revisits the Enlightenment, that great flowering of ideas that provided a humane direction for the future -- ideas that formed our nation and that we would do well to embrace anew. He turns our attention to Goethe, Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot, Kant, Edward Gibbon, Adam Smith, Thomas Paine, Jefferson, and Franklin, and to their then-radical thinking about inductive science, religious and political freedom, popular education, rational commerce, the nation-state, progress, and happiness. Postman calls for a future connected to traditions that provide sane authority and meaningful purpose -- as opposed to an overreliance on technology and an increasing disregard for the lessons of history. And he argues passionately for specific new guidelines in the education of our children, with renewed emphasis on developing the intellect as successfully as we are developing a computer-driven world. Witty, provocative, and brilliantly reasoned, Building a Bridge to the Eighteenth Century is Neil Postman's most radical, and most commonsensical, book yet.

The English Church in the Eighteenth Century

The English Church in the Eighteenth Century
Title The English Church in the Eighteenth Century PDF eBook
Author Charles J. Overton, John H. Abbey
Publisher BoD – Books on Demand
Pages 494
Release 2018-05-23
Genre Fiction
ISBN 3732683826

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Reproduction of the original: The English Church in the Eighteenth Century by Charles J. Abbey, John H. Overton