The House of God
Church Architecture, Style and History
Edward Norman
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| ‘A remarkable achievement: lucid, wide-ranging, with a passion for architecture and ideas’ | | – The Observer |
| ‘A magnificent production, immensely detailed yet also readable …’ | | – The Tablet |
| ‘This book transcends all others in the genre … will inspire and engage the most jaded reader’ | | – The Evening Standard |
| ‘Norman combines great scholarship with first-hand experience and an infectious enthusiasm … a joy to read’ | | RIBA Journal |
Throughout the world, amidst the increasing materialism of largely secular societies, churches continue to attract travellers, tourists, historians and worshippers. The reasons for this apparent paradox are not difficult to see.
The clarity, knowledge and insight of Edward Norman’s chronological survey are supported and enhanced by a brilliantly researched collection of illustrations and photographs. The result is a perfect mix between the most-loved master buildings – from Hagia Sophia to Tokyo Cathedral – and the freshness of the less familiar – a mission church in Paraguay, a Baroque shrine in Goa.
The totality of Christian worship, a union of theology, spiritual experience and art, has nowhere been more fluently and movingly conveyed.
Edward Norman lectured in history at the University of Cambridge and is an Emeritus Fellow of Peterhouse. A former Reith Lecturer for the BBC, Dr Norman has written widely on the history of Christianity and his books include The Victorian Christian Socialists, Secularisation, and the Roman Catholic Church, also published by by Thames & Hudson.
Also of interest:
The Cathedrals of England
The Cathedral Builders of the Middle Ages
The Christian World
The Gothic Cathedral:
The Architecture of the Great Church 1130–1530
Carved Altarpieces: Masterpieces of the Late Gothic
The Roman Catholic Church: An Illustrated History
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|  |  | | | | ISBN 050028556X | | ISBN-13 978-0500285565 | | | | 29.0 x 24.4 cm | | Paperback with flaps | | 312pp | | 387 illustrations, 80 in colour | | First published 2005 | | | | £18.95 | | | |  | | | | 
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