From Temple to Meeting House

The Phenomenology and Theology of Places of Worship

Harold W. Turner

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN: 9789027979773
• eBook ISBN: 9783110803679
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Biblical Studies

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Table of contents

• Preface
• Contents
• PART ONE: PHENOMENOLOGICAL ANALYSIS THE SACRED PLACE AND ITS BIBLICAL VERSIONS
• 1. Methods of approach
• 1.1 Different starting points
• 1.2 Need for a theology of space
• 1.3 The phenomenological approach
• 1.4 Phenomenological analysis of sacred space
• 1.5 The two main types discovered
• 1.6 Relation between phenomenology and theology
• 2. The sacred place
• 2.1 The spatial reference in religious language and worship
• 2.2 The earliest sacred places
• 2.3 Their divine origins
• 2.4 Their four functions
• 2.4.1 The sacred place as centre
• 2.4.2 The sacred place as meeting point
• 2.4.3 The sacred place as microcosm of the heavenly realm
• 2.4.4 The sacred place as immanent-transcendent presence
• 3. The temple type
• 3.1 The temple as centre
• 3.2 The temple as microcosm
• 3.3 The temple as meeting point
• 3.4 The temple as immanent-transcendent presence
• 3.5 The temple type, or domus dei
• 3.6 Examples: Syria, China, West Africa, United States
• 4. The temple in Jerusalem
• 4.1 Religious inheritance of Solomon's temple
• 4.2 The divine sanction
• 4.3 The function as centre
• 4.4 The function as microcosm
• 4.5 The function as meeting point
• 4.6 The function as immanent-transcendent presence
• 5. The problem of the Jerusalem temple
• 5.1 Ambivalent attitudes: criticism and support
• 5.2 Efforts to relieve the tension
• 5.3 Radical opposition: Nathan
• 5.4 Radical replacement: the holy community
• 5.5 Modern discussions: in defence of the temple
• 5.6 Conclusions
• 6. New forms: tabernacle and synagogue
• 6.1 The tabernacle or tent
• 6.2 The synagogue
• 6.3 Synagogue and temple
• 7. The new temple of the New Testament
• 7.1 The practice of Jesus
• 7.2 The teaching of Jesus
• 7.3 The early Church: the temple old and new
• 7.4 Radical opposition: Stephen
• 7.5 A theology for the new temple: Paul
• 7.6 The consensus of thought: Peter, Luke, Hebrews, the Revelation of John
• 7.7 Conclusions
• 8. Phenomenological analysis of New Testament contributions
• 8.1 Divine origin of the new sanctuary
• 8.2 The new temple
• 8.2.1 As centre
• 8.2.2 As meeting point
• 8.2.3 As microcosm
• 8.2.4 As immanent-transcendent presence
• 8.3 The tent of meeting in the New Testament
• 8.4 The transition from place to person and its symbol
• 8.5 Non-sacred places of worship: the meeting room
• PART TWO: HISTORICAL APPLICATION PHENOMENOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF PLACES OF WORSHIP IN THE SEMITIC RELIGIONS
• 9. Churches in the early Christian centuries
• 9.1 Worship in a domestic setting
• 9.2 Back to the domus dei
• 9.3 Funerary influences
• 9.4 The cult of the saints
• 9.5 Further influences of the temple tradition
• 9.6 Conclusions
• 10. A THOUSAND YEARS OF THE DOMUS DEI
• 10.1 The return of the sacred place
• 10.2 Churches as sacred buildings
• 10.2.1 The gradation of sanctity
• 10.2.2 Symbolism in churches
• 10.3 Gothic: a new and Christian form?
• 10.4 The Renaissance: a new theory of church architecture
• 10.5 Other forms in the Middle Ages
• 10.6 The Orthodox church of Ethiopia
• 11. Reformations and their aftermaths
• 11.1 Protestant statements
• 11.2 Frustrated insights
• 11.3 Adapting and transforming the old churches
• 11.4 Tokens of what might have been
• 11.5 Other Reformations: left wing and right
• 12. Advances and retreats
• 12.1 Developing the Protestant plain style
• 12.2 The new Anglican tradition
• 12.3 The Protestant plain style in other areas
• 12.4 The loss of the domus ecclesiae: the auditorium
• 12.5 The return of the domus dei: the Gothic Revival
• 12.5.1 Theories in the Gothic Revival
• 12.5.2 Gothic Revival symbolism
• 12.6 The new-old image of a church
• 12.7 An international pattern
• 12.7.1 Gothic Revivals in the United States
• 12.7.2 Across all lands and denominations
• 12.8 Conclusions
• 13. The experience of other traditions: Islam
• 13.1 Islam's ancient temple
• 13.2 Muhammad's new form
• 13.3 Return of the temple tradition
• 13.4 Survival of the original forms
• 13.5 Homogeneity of mosque history
• 14. The experience of other traditions: Judaism
• 14.1 Synagogues in antiquity
• 14.2 The inconspicuous thousand years
• 14.3 Persistence of the meeting house: 16th to 18th centuries
• 14.4 The spatial problem of the synagogue interior
• 14.5 From meeting house to temple: the variant influence of modern Jewish denominations
• 14.6 Rediscovering the Jewish norm
• Epilogue: The Semitic experience
• PART THREE: THEOLOGICAL SYNTHESIS
• 15. Theological issues in twentieth century church building
• 15.1 The second great age of church building
• 15.2 Liturgical revival and current consensus
• 15.3 The nature of the Church: hierarchies and sanctuaries?
• 15.4 The structure of worship: word and sacraments
• 15.5 The purpose of the church building
• 16. Meeting house and temple in theological perspective
• 16.1 Are buildings really necessary?
• 16.2 Are church buildings merely instrumental?
• 16.3 Derivative holiness by association?
• 16.4 Representative holiness by sacramental function?
• 16.5 Critique of sacramental holiness and autonomous witness
• 16.6 Survival of the numinous house of God
• 16.7 Temples for civil religion
• 16.8 Domus dei et ecclesiae?
• 16.9 The function of the Christian norm
• 16.10 The practical consequences in the building
• 17. THE WIDER IMPLICATIONS FOR PHENOMENOLOGY AND THEOLOGY
• 17.1 The phenomenological and historical procedures
• 17.2 Procedural assumptions
• 17.2.1 Religions as authentic phenomena
• 17.2.2 Religion as universal phenomenon
• 17.2.3 Religions as both ideal and actual
• 17.3 Personal stance
• 17.4 The interaction between phenomenology and theology
• 17.4.1 Phenomenology's contribution to theology
• 17.4.2 Consequent theological reworking
• 17.4.3 Feedback for phenomenological reworking
• 17.4.4 Beyond phenomenology to commitment
• 17.5 A theology of other religions
• 17.5.1 A common language of discourse
• 17.5.2 Increased self-understanding for Christians
• 17.5.3 Self-understanding in all religions
• 17.6 The Christian norm in a theology of religions
• 17.7 Theological definition of the sacred place
• 17.7.1 Ontological-Christological definition of temple
• 17.7.2 The two analogies: models for, and models of
• Notes
• Indexes
• 1. Index of subjects
• 2. Index of churches and chapels, individual
• 3. Index of mosques and shrines, individual
• 4. Index of synagogues, individual
• 5. Index of temples and shrines, individual
• 6. Index of personal names