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Wednesday, March 25, 2020: San Giovanni Battista/Church of San Giovanni
The Roman Catholic Church documented today is located in Herbrechtingen, Germany.
St. Bonifatius by C18 architects, Herbrechtingen, Germany from yatzer.com
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The church St. Bonifaz was completed 1958. During the nineties the construction defects which had appeared over the years couldn’t be overlooked any longer. The church hall and the staff rooms also needed to be refurbished. However the requirements of the church had changed. The church interior was to radiate a more collective and spiritual atmosphere, it was to ensure the intensity of a shared church service for small as well as large faith communities. In 2002 after successfully taking part in competition were commissioned to proceed with their proposal. The first phase of construction has now been finished.
Stated
The spacial arrangement stays visible through joints but the church interior is pulled together to a whole by a connecting white which transports the idea of the transcendent and the immaterial as a space made of light. The floor is covered in white terrazzo, the walls with plane painted plaster. The benches are made of wood, painted white. The altar - designed by Wolfgang Eckert - was sanctified July, 16th 2007. The artist accentuates the new beginning which is connected to the conversion. This can also be interpreted theologically: Belief implies a willingness for new beginning...
Artistically and theologically, I can reason that the colour white can be connected to New Testament conversion and spirituality. Particularly within the book of Revelation, the justified, purity of those citizens within the Kingdom of God.
I suppose the architecture is unique, and the inside design and white and black stylish, while at the same time, the white especially has me think of the inside of a 'white room', a padded cell in a psychiatric hospital.
Strong
3022 (page 59): λευκός, (light), white.
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Strong's Concordance
leukos: bright, white
Original Word: λευκός, ή, όν
Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: leukos
Phonetic Spelling: (lyoo-kos')
Definition: bright, white
Usage: white, bright, brilliant.
Justification and walking in white
In Revelation 3: 4 (To the church in Sardis): The worthy shall walk with Jesus Christ in white: λευκοῖς (Bible Hub). David Hocking in his 'The Book of Revelation' states that these people have 'moral purity'. (181). I will add that this is through justification, the imputed righteousness of Jesus Christ through his applied atonement for believers. (Romans, Galatians, Hebrews, James as key examples in New Testament books)
Romans 3:24 New American Standard Bible (NASB)
24 being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus...
Mounce in his 'The Book of Revelation' writes ...'it would mean that walking 'in white' is a way of describing those who are justified.' (112). That is New Testament and theological justification. Mounce reasons that other possible references for 'white' here are to purity, festivity and resurrection bodies. (112). These people are not worthy by their own works, not by their own 'merit' (112), but do have a sense of worthiness by staying true to New Testament faith, without apostasy. It is mentioned in Revelation 3:5, these persons, clothed in white, will not have their names removed from the book of life. (112-113).
In Revelation 3: 18 as they are clothed in white garments...
Commentaries
To the church in Laodicea...
Cited
White raiment - Holiness of heart and life.
Clarke, Adam. "Commentary on Revelation 3:18". "The Adam Clarke Commentary". https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/acc/revelation-3.html. 1832.
Cited
And white raiment - The emblem of purity and salvation. See the notes on Revelation 3:4. This is said in reference to the fact Revelation 3:17 that they were then naked.
Barnes, Albert. "Commentary on Revelation 3:18". "Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible". https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/bnb/revelation-3.html. 1870.
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However, in a sense, to fulfil the scripture, I can opine that citizens of the culminated Kingdom of God will wear white at certain times and events.
HOCKING, DAVID (2014) The Book of Revelation, Tustin, California, HFT Publications.
STRONG, J. (1890)(1986) Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, Burlington, Welch Publishing Company.
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