Words of Life: Celebrating Fifty Years of the Hesburgh Library's Message, Mural, and Meaning: Celebrating 50 Years of the Hesburgh Library's Message, Mural, and Meaning - Brossura

Schmitt, Bill

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0268017832 ISBN 13: 9780268017835

Casa editrice: Univ of Notre Dame Pr, 2013

Riassunto

"This book celebrates the University of Notre Dame's Hesburgh Library and its fifty years as a place of evolving service, powerful symbolism, and collaboration. It tells the history of the Library in terms of its meaning to all those who designed it, helped it to become a reality, imbued it with a distinctive identity, and pointed it toward the future. The text by Bill Schmitt and photographs from the University Archives and university photographers give the reader a new appreciation for a building that is central to the university's history and therefore important to supporters of Notre Dame as a place of special value. Schmitt begins with the Library's dedication day in 1964 and explores what the new building meant to Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, C.S.C., who as president of Notre Dame played a key role in its construction and in defining its characteristics and place at Notre Dame. The book focuses especially on the building's best-known feature, the iconic mural named The Word of Life but better known to many as "Touchdown Jesus." Included in the book are numerous photos that transport the reader to the past and enhance an appreciation of the mural and the building for us today. "The lessons I hope will be drawn from the story of this Library and from my role in its fifty-years-and-counting lifespan are a mixture of past, present, and future. I wanted in 1963, and still desire today, for the Memorial Library literally to stand for the future of Notre Dame as a place of unmatched intellectual achievement, free inquiry, and providential contributions to mankind. But I wanted, and still desire, that this be in the context of a distinctive pursuit of truth that is recognized in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart and in Our Lady atop the Golden Dome. The muralist Millard Sheets captured this pursuit in the Library's Word of Life mural, too, showing that the pursuit is a legacy passed along since the dawn of human history, a legacy that has generated countless treasures of wisdom, many of which are preserved and accessible here." --Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, C.S.C., from the foreword"--

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Bill Schmitt is communications and media specialist for the Alliance for Catholic Education at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Football Weekends at Notre Dame: Snapshots and Traditions (University of Notre Dame Press, 2008).

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Notre Dame Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0268017832
• ISBN 13: 9780268017835
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 160