Twelve churches
an unlikely history of the buildings that made Christianity
Twelve churches
an unlikely history of the buildings that made Christianity
Book - 2025
Explores twelve churches across the globe through travel writing, history, and spiritual reflection, tracing Christianity's complex legacy while revealing how sacred spaces reflect the struggles, faith, and resilience of the people who shaped and were shaped by them.
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2025.
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| Edition: | First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition. |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-375) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a The Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem, West Bank of Palestine -- St Peter's, Rome, Italy -- Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Turkey -- Canterbury Cathedral, England -- Mount Athos, Greece -- Bete Golgotha, Lalibela, Ethiopia -- Templo de las Américas, Dominican Republic -- Kirishitan Hokora, Kasuga, Japan -- Site of the First Meeting House, Salem, Massachusetts, United States -- Christ Church, Zanzibar, Tanzania -- 16th Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America -- Canaanland, Ota, Nigeria -- Epilogue: Surprise, Service, Belonging -- Appendix : Dramatis Personae. | |
| 520 | |a Explores twelve churches across the globe through travel writing, history, and spiritual reflection, tracing Christianity's complex legacy while revealing how sacred spaces reflect the struggles, faith, and resilience of the people who shaped and were shaped by them. | ||
| 520 | |a "Christianity is the largest religion in the US with upwards of 200 million people, and its churches often possess an allure and beauty that fascinate even the most committed atheist. What fascinates Fergus Butler-Gallie is that each place of worship tells a story--of place, time, and most of all, people. It is in these sanctuaries that the complexities of life from birth and death to power, sex, violence, justice, and beauty are encapsulated, and here, in Twelve Churches, Butler-Gallie takes us on a fascinating journey through time to unravel the story of Christianity as told by the people who have lived it on every inhabited continent. Beginning with the birth of Christ over 2,000 years ago in Bethlehem at the location marked by the Church of the Nativity--a confusing warren of a building--Butler-Gallie leads us to a remote stone outcrop in Mount Athos, Greece, where the monastic vow of celibacy is taken to an optimistic extreme by excluding all female animals. We learn that at Canterbury Cathedral, the stones have been soaked in blood that is both famous and infamous. On the coast of Japan, a cave like church marks the spot where Christian martyrs were tied to crosses at low tide--and left there. The 16th Street Church in Birmingham, Alabama, remains the site of one of the Ku Klux Klan's most infamous bombings, and the meeting house in Salem, Massachusetts, remains a monument to the ways that a quest for purity can lead to mass murder. And in Nigeria we visit a church the size of an airplane hangar, where every Sunday it fills almost every one of its 50,000 seats. An engaging blend of history, geography, travel, biography, spiritual reflection, and a wry sense of humor, Butler-Gallie shows us that despite its complexities and controversy, such a faith is still worth following, and that by acknowledging the past we can ultimately discover the path toward healing and hope." -- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
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