The Presbycast is one of my favorite podcasts and Harrison Perkins, a regular contributor to the Heidelblog, is one of my favorite writers and, in this episode, like Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup, the two come together:

They are discussing Jeanne Halgren Kilde’s book, When Church Became Theatre: The Transformation of Evangelical Architecture and Worship in Nineteenth-Century America (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002). Harrison and Brad Isbell discuss the thesis of the book, that the spaces in which evangelical churches gathered for worship were gradually transformed from the older, traditional spaces into spaces that increasingly resembled those used for entertainment. This book and the Presbycast episode is not for devotees of the fine points of church architecture. It is really a discussion of the relationship of Christ and culture. For more on this see the resources below.

Here is the episode.

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• R. Scott Clark

  

  R.Scott Clark is the President of the Heidelberg Reformation Association, the author and editor of, and contributor to several books and the author of many articles. He has taught church history and historical theology since 1997 at Westminster Seminary California. He has also taught at Wheaton College, Reformed Theological Seminary, and Concordia University. He has hosted the Heidelblog since 2007.

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