Thomas Coomans Life Inside the cloister

understanding monastic architecture: tradition, reformation, adaptive reuse

Sacred architecture as reality and metaphor in secularised Western society. Christian monasteries and convents, built throughout Europe for the best part of 1,500 years, are now at a crossroads. This study attempts to understand the sacred architecture of monasteries as a process of the tangible and symbolic organisation of space and time for religious communities. Despite the weight of seemingly immutable monastic tradition, architecture has contributed to developing specific religious identities...

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Engels | PDF, 17 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2018

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Jan De Volder Cardinal Mercier in the first world war

Belgium, Germany and the catholic church

Church leaders and their contrasting opinions in the face of the Great War Cardinal Désiré-Joseph Mercier, Archbishop of Malines, was the incarnation of the Belgian resistance against the German occupation during the First World War. With his famous pastoral letter of Christmas 1914 'Patriotisme et Endurance' he reached a wide audience, and gained international influence and respect. Mercier's distinct patriotic stance clearly determined his views of national politics, especially of the 'Flemish...

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Engels | PDF, 10 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2018

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Shammah Hart Woman a new beginning for you too

I meet regularly women who went through hard times in life. I want to encourage them to never lose hope. It does not matter what we go through in life, we must keep our hope and trust in the Lord.

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Engels | 108 pagina's (ePub2, 4 MB) | Highly Favored Publishing, Almere | 2018

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Samuel Otte | Henk Otte | John Mastenbroek Burger van twee werelden

de reis van ds. G.H. Kersten naar Amerika

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Engels | Nederlands | 252 pagina's | De Banier, [Apeldoorn] | 2018

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Haemin Sunim The things you can see only when you slow down

how to be calm in a busy world

Inspirerende levenslessen van een zenmonnik over hoe om te gaan met de uitdagingen in het leven.

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Engels | 265 pagina's | Penguin Life, an imprint of Penguin Books, UK | 2018

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Pope Eugenius III (1145-1153)

the first Cistercian pope

Non-fictie

Engels | 362 pagina's | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2018

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Alev Scott Ottoman odyssey

travels through a lost empire

Engels | 292 pagina's | Riverrun, London | 2018

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Ed Husain The house of islam

a global history

Engels | 320 pagina's | Bloomsbury Publishing, London | 2018

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