This book is a scholarly treatise on the symbolism of churches and church ornaments written by Benjamin Webb, with contributions from Guillaume Durand and John Mason Neale. The translation of the first book of Rationale Divinorum Officiorum provides readers with an insightful exploration of the religious symbolism of churches, their furnishings, and ornaments. This book is an invaluable resource for scholars and students of theology, religious studies, and art history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Excerpt from The Symbolism of Churches and Church Ornaments: A Translation of the First Book of the Rationale Divinorum Officiorum Wherein this consists. Not in association, Nor in correctness of details, Nor in the Picturesque, Nor in the Mechanical advantages, But in Reality considered, in an enlarged view, as Sacramentality. 3. This probable, from examples, and promises in Holy Scripture. Catholic consent, examples to the contrary, philosophical reasons. 4. Enunciation of the subject. 5. Writers on the subject, Pugin, Poole, Lewis, Coddington, the writers of the Cambridge Camden Society. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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