Modeled after San Vitale in Vienna which in turn was modeled after the Church of Holy Sepucher in Jerusalem. The symbolism attached to the dome represented the heavenly sphere and divinity was appropriate both for the place ...

Wädenswill is obviously an auditory church with an emphasis on preaching. Note the ranges of pews in the balcony which wraps around three sides of the church.

Not only did Calvin here give lectures on all the books of the bible with the exception of Revelation, but he also consolidated the role of the church in its semi-independence from the state.

Theological conflicts of the 17th century continued in the 19th, tearing the church apart.

Lord and Mother: Under this sectional rubric for the Middle Ages we visited Corbusier's distinctive pilgrimage church dedicated to the Virgin.

Cornie Van De Hoeff takes us from our prior 4th century site to an 8th century site of Charlemagne's "Second Rome" and "new Jerusalem."

On the long side of the rectangle is the most prominent liturgical feature of this Zwinglian church, the high marble pulpit with its baroque sounding board. In the center of the pews is the combination baptismal font and ...

Note the high pulpit on the first pillar from the crossing with the pews pointed toward the pulpit. The pews were probably a post Reformation addition.

Designed by Le Corbusier.

The great new organ is recent, while fillings the raised chancel with pews which look toward the pulpit took place after the Reformation.

Hymns involved God's word set to music, thus the organ which supported the singing was an essential adjunct to worship. Our thanks to the Reverend Sigrist and wife for their warm reception and providing tea and discussion ...

A church in the Zwinglian tradition, with an obvious emphasis on the Lordship of the Word.

This baroque church by Dominkus Zimmermann was featured in a paper on the baroque by LeRoy Suess.

The interior of Calvin's church with a somewhat ephemeral President Ridder in the second iteration of Calvin's pulpit. It was in this church that Calvin was heavily influenced by his co-Strasbourg reformer, Bucer, and ...

The photo taken from the castle is spanned by the later Jesuit church on the extreme left and the Reformation church of the Holy Ghost on the right with the river Neckar in the background.

The Jesuit Church was begun during the Counter Reformation in 1712. The paper on Heidelberg was given by Richard Koerseman.

Marinus Spierenburg gives his paper in the Pieterskerk, where Arminius is buried.

The Counter Reformation sought to promote the faith not only through words but also through architecture which was to promote the glories and superiority of the Roman church through the extravagant baroque art.

In 1519, Zwingli was appointed People's Priest at the Grossmunster of Zurich and it was from this position that he began biblical reforms.

On the Piazza Navona with the famous Bernini Fountain of the Four Rivers (left); with the church of S. Agnese in the center, we were again the guests of the Ladies of Bethanie on the fifth floor of the Collegium to the ...