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Article: OF STONES & STORIES.(Review)
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- Commonweal
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- May 4, 2001
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The Geometry of Love
Space, Time, Mystery, and Meaning in an Ordinary Church
Margaret Visser
North Point Press, $27, 262 pp.
Every reader of Margaret Visser's new book--and may there be many--will be able to pinpoint the precise moment when he or she gets hooked. For me, the moment came in chapter 2, where a discussion of sacred space in ancient Rome became an extended meditation on the Hebrew exodus from Egypt and Solomon's construction of the great temple at Jerusalem. For another reader it may be the reflection on the symbolism of the number eight, or the comparison of a visitor's descent into a church with Aeneas's descent into the underworld in book VI of ...