Embodying the Celestial City

In which I talk about the Gothic cathedral as an exercise in the medieval synthesis of faith and reason.

Bibliography:

Blackwell, Albert L. The Sacred in Music. Cambridge: The Lutterworth Press, 1999.

Bork, Robert. The Geometry of Creation. New York: Routledge, 2011.

Lewis, C.S. The Discarded Image. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1964.

Grant, Edward. God and Reason in the Middle Ages. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Guite, Malcolm. Faith, Hope and Poetry: Theology and the Poetic Imagination. New York: Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.

Panofsky, Erwin. Introduction to Abbot Suger, by Abbot Suger, 1-37. Edited and translated by Erwin Panofsky. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1979.

Taylor, Charles. A Secular Age. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007.

Von Simson, Otto. The Gothic Cathedral. New York: Harper & Row, 1964.

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