Altar and Church: Principles of Liturgy from Early Christianity - Couverture rigide

Heid, Stefan

 
9783795438456: Altar and Church: Principles of Liturgy from Early Christianity
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 3795438454 ISBN 13 : 9783795438456
Editeur : Schnell & Steiner GmbH, Verlag, 2024

Synopsis

This is the first English edition of a book first published very successfully in German in 2019. It is a translation of the revised third German edition. The central themes of Stefan Heid’s book are the early Christian altar and the design and building of churches. It is about the beginnings of the Christian liturgy; but it is also about the principles behind the liturgy.

In his Preface, the author states that the book is concerned with “those things that are so fundamental and important for Christian worship that up to the Middle Ages they were found in all churches and to this day continue to exert an influence, especially in the communities of the East. In many cases, however, the praxis has meanwhile diverged a long way from what it once was and is now increasingly subject to ideological decisions.”

Since the liturgical reform of the Vatican Council 2, the altar has been at the centre of many redesigns of Catholic church spaces, with the early Church frequently taken as the model. But how can this be reconciled with the widespread opinion that Christianity initially knew no cult and no sacrifices? It was not until later, from the time of Emperor Constantine, that a real state-supported cult with sacrifices, altars and magnificent sacred spaces developed; the Church suffers from this historical burden to this day. This volume carves a few paths through the liturgical jungle and arrives at results that are as surprising as they are stimulating.

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À propos de l'auteur

Stefan Heid is a German Catholic priest, a church historian and a Christian archaeologist. He is professor of the history of liturgy and hagiography at the Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology and director of the Roman Institute of the Society of Görres in Rome.

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Éditeur
Schnell & Steiner GmbH, Verlag
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3795438454
ISBN 13 
9783795438456
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
512
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