Akademisk afhandling--Lund.

Thesis (D. Min.)--Western Conservative Baptist Seminary, 1992. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 201-205).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (D. Min.)--Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--Catholoic Theological Union at Chicago, 1999. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaf [62]).

Thesis (M.A.(Teologie)--Universiteit van Pretoria, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 92-97).

The design solution for this thesis seemed to present more than the usual amount of difficulty. The first and one of the most difficult problems was of course the ever present enigma of designing a contemporary church which would "look like a church”. The author has never felt that a cross attached to the outside is sufficient to designate a building as a church. It seems also to be an expensive way of admitting defeat to resort to a romantic recall solution for appeal: to build arches which are hung from steel; to filing buttresses into the sky when the building is tied together with a rigid frame; to hang a stone veneer on a steel column. The question resolves into one obtaining through character and proportion and with simple materials and simple masses a tone of dignity or inspiration. In this solution the author has tried to use the structure as a visual feature; to use romantic recall only insofar as it honestly' serves a purpose. The exposed rigid frames (usually hidden) are to the modern church what the ribbed vault was to the gothic. The author believes that if they have looked cold at times it has too often been the fault of proportion or workmanship and not material or idea. The second major problem was that of relationships of the various parts. The problem of grouping the different elements so that worship, educational and social functions of the building best served the needs of the church was not an easy one. The author has chosen to express a "sanctuary in space" around which the essential elements could be wrapped to exclude the workaday world. The third and most difficult problem was the arrangement of the chancel. This area has seldom been solved successfully due primarily to economic considerations, and yet to save money at this, the focal point of the whole church plant, seems a false economy indeed. The semi-circular solution used in this thesis appears to answer all of the functional requirements in a satisfactory manner while at the same time giving a sense of depth to this important area. Majesty and reverence should be expressed in the Protestant Church and these qualities should not be confused with the undesired qualities of pomp, ceremony or unattainability. The remainder of the design of the church involved mainly space and circulation problems. The materials have been kept simple for the sake of the economy. Although the problem has been very complex, and was undertaken under difficult working conditions (working in absentia) the author feels that he has profited greatly by this exercise. It is his hope that by having gone through this additional period of study something has been gained which will allow him to do more credible work in his profession, for it is the unknown and unacclaimed men working silently who will do most to raise the general level of architecture. / Master of Science

The author has considered the religious, social and educational aspects in his design. It is an attempt to correlate three with the architectural aspect in such a way as to produce an atmosphere describable for worship. / Master of Science

Chow Wai Ho. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2004-2005, design report."

Extensive church building programmes and the relocation of existing churches were important features of Protestant congregational life in industrializing cities across Britain and North America. In Montreal, building booms in the 1860s, 70s, and 80s led many congregations to abandon their old churches in the centre of the city and rebuild on a grander scale 'uptown', closer to the residential neighbourhoods to which their wealthier members were moving. In the early twentieth century, when a new phase of growth engulfed the city, many of the same congregations again faced the dilemma of whether or not to move. Whereas the earlier period was characterized by a strong evangelical consensus, the subsequent period was associated with wider-ranging theological and social debates: the context of decision-making had changed. / For each period, I explore the impact of building decisions on 'domestic' ministries to church members and on the 'public' ministries that congregations carried out in the environs of their churches and in working-class neighbourhoods. In doing so, I draw on a variety of methodological approaches and on local sources that have not previously been synthesized. A database containing temporal and spatial information for every Protestant church built in Montreal between 1760 and 1914 was also constructed for this project. Case studies of six 'uptown' congregations, and of a downtown neighbourhood that was a popular mission field, are carried out. Investigation of documentary sources such as church minute books and correspondence is complemented by cartographic and sociological analyses of church membership using city directories, tax rolls, censuses, and the recently completed Montreal l'Avenir du Passe historical geo-database. A systematic sampling of local newspapers and denominational records brings to life the many congregational controversies and dilemmas that spilled over into the public sphere during a time of dramatic urban, social, and theological change. / A range of external factors, both material and spiritual, affected the choices that were made. I show how investment in religious edifices during the original phase of church moves, as well as the heightened social exclusivity that these moves generated, made it more challenging for the next generation to adapt their religious institutions to the needs of the twentieth-century city. Congregations simultaneously had to deal with a number of ongoing tensions: the logic of institutional maintenance versus the logic of mission, competition versus cooperation amongst Protestant institutions, and the dynamic between capitalist materialism and Christianity. Unless these tensions were skilfully negotiated by church leaders, they threatened to destroy either the viability or the integrity of religious institutions.