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Jon M. Sweeney.
Beauty Awakening Belief: How the medieval worldview inspires faith today.
Published London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 2009.
ISBN 9780281059966.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printed in the UK by Ashford colour Press.
Size: 138x215x10mm.
Page count: xi,115pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition very good: this is an ex-display copy so shows some evidence of handling, but otherwise unused.


This item £5.00
plus P&P £2.00 within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Publisher’s price £9.99]
Weight without packaging: 178g.

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Focuses in particular on the Abbey of Mont St.-Michel and Chartres cathedral.

Contents: Worldview of the gothic cathedral; Inviting God in — space; Making our places holy — sanctuary; A place that is cool — stone; Open your eyes & see — light; Learning to live with the light off — darkness; Don’t take yourself too seriously — gargoyles; Reaching to heaven — flying buttresses; Beauty awakens belief.

Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at end of book
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Index: no

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See also | Medievalism | Architecture | Cathedrals |

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