UNLOCKING THE CHURCH

In Unlocking the Church, William Whyte explores a forgotten revolution in social and architectural history and in the history of the Church. He details the architectural and theological debates of the day, explaining how the Tractarians of Oxford and the Ecclesiol ogists of Cambridge were embroiled in the aesthetics of architecture, and how the Victorians profoundly changed the ways in which bu ildings were understood and experienced. No longer mere receptacles for worship, churches became active agents in their own rights, capable o...[Read more]