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Local churches have been in the spotlight a good deal lately--from the protests of the size of the Knafel Center project by the parishioners at the Swedenborg Chapel to some students' irritation with the frequent peals of the new bells of St. Paul's Church. It's a question in the first case of not enough light and in the second of too much noise. As far as the bells go, I can't say that my heart goes out too much to those bothered by the chimes. We students have become experts at tuning out what...
...social concern. Reaching out has been as much a motive as reaching up. They have been able to move horizontally--if not vertically--into the Cambridge community in a number of ways that are less religious but more social, educational and political. Within a mile's radius of the Swedenborg Chapel, we can find a history of such outreach that more than compensates for any physical restrictions. Consider the following three examples...
...these churches are either boxed in by hotels (the Sheraton Commander borders one side of the First Church property) or apartment buildings and parking areas (which surround Holy Trinity), yet their influence extends far beyond Sunday morning services and the physical limits placed upon their structures. Likewise, the tiny Swedenborg Chapel on the corner of Kirkland and Quincy streets and its founder have influenced the Harvard community. Henry James, Sr. 'was an avid reader of the works of Emanuel Swedenborg, the Swedish theologian who was the inspiration for the Church of the New Jerusalem. Henry in turn influenced his eldest...
...than just spiritual influence in the community, it is wrong to over-look the significance of space and relative height in the debate over the construction and shape of the proposed Knafel Center. Across the street from the home where Henry and William James once read the works of Swedenborg, on the side of Emerson Hall is inscribed a quotation from the eighth psalm, "What is man that thou art mindful of him?" President Lowell commissioned the inscription, overruling the original request of the Philosophy Department that the wall read, "Man is the measure of all things." It seems that...
...site we have been studying is at the edge of campus, on a mixed-use block bordered by the Graduate School of Design in Gund Hall, the international centers in Coolidge Hall, the Swedenborg Chapel, houses on Kirkland Street (one of which houses the Core program) and academic and residential structures on Sumner Road. We understand and share what we take to be the community's central concerns: to conserve and improve the green space behind Gund Hall and to build in keeping with the scale of the site, respecting its proximity to a residential neighborhood. One way to accomplish...