1. A Method for Thinking About Power Dynamics in Christian Space ; 2. Early Christian Meeting Space in the Roman Empire ; 3. Imperial Power in Constantinian and Byzantine Churches ; 4. From Abbey to Great Church, Fortress to Heavenly City ; 5. Transformations of the Renaissance and Reformation ; 6. Formalism and Non- or Anti-Formalism in Worship and Architecture ; 7. Historicism, Modernism, and Space ; 8. Concluding Observations
Jeanne Halgren Kilde is the author of When Church Became Theatre: The Transformation of Evangelical Architecture and Worship in Nineteenth-Century America. She is the Director of the Religious Studies Program at the University of Minnesota.
"Jeanne Halgren Kilde's Sacred Power, Sacred Space not only
illuminates the intersection of power and space in Christianity,
but it also reveals how historical movements and worship practices
are revealed in a sacred space." -- Julie Durbin, Geneva College,
Global Forum on Arts and Christian Faith
"Jeanne Kilde is a gifted teacher and a mature scholar who has been
studying and writing about material culture since before it was
fashionable to do so. Her works are careful, imaginative, and
daring, and this treatment of the linkages of power and space is
brilliant. The book's depth and reach are breathtaking, and its
implications are manifold." --Calvin J. Roetzel, Sundet Professor
of New Testament and Christian Studies, University of Minnesota
"Kilde's book is one that has long been needed. It provides a
concise introduction to the periods of church-building, enlivened
by a clearly articulated point of view. It is focused on a
selection of important churches. And it is informed by an
interpretive grid that readers will find tremendously useful as a
starting point for analysis and discussion. This book will be
welcomed warmly as an interesting, accessible introduction to the
subject." --Richard
Kieckhefer, author of Theology in Stone: Church Architecture from
Byzantium to Berkeley
"Jeanne Kilde is a gifted teacher and a mature scholar who has been
studying and writing about material culture since before it was
fashionable to do so. Her works are careful, imaginative, and
daring, and this treatment of the linkages of power and space is
brilliant. The book's depth and reach are breathtaking, and its
implications are manifold." --Calvin J. Roetzel, Sundet Professor
of New Testament and Christian Studies, University of Minnesota
"Kilde's book is one that has long been needed. It provides a
concise introduction to the periods of church-building, enlivened
by a clearly articulated point of view. It is focused on a
selection of important churches. And it is informed by an
interpretive grid that readers will find tremendously useful as a
starting point for analysis and discussion. This book will be
welcomed warmly as an interesting, accessible introduction to the
subject." --Richard
Kieckhefer, author of Theology in Stone: Church Architecture from
Byzantium to Berkeley
"By far, Sacred Power, Sacred Space is the best overview of
Christian architecture that I have enjoyed in some time. Its
insights will provide students of religion a helpful understanding
of how the dynamic character of Christian worship was manipulated
in the past and, still more, how the church might shape its spaces
intentionally in the future."
--Sewanee Theological Review
"By far, Sacred Power, Sacred Space is the best overview of
Christian architecture that I have enjoyed in some time."--John
Ander Runkle
"Halgren Kilde has succeeded in making yet another contribution to
the topic that is well worth the read, throught her book Sacred
Power, Sacred Space."--William R. McAlpine, Ambrose University
College
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