Church of the Epiphany, Gipton uncluttered open space being his main consideration. The church has a prominent apse on its eastern side. The church is built of reinforced concrete with a red brick cladding and a tiled roof. The nave and chancel are under a single roof span. The church's gable has two buttresses flanked by the bell openings. Church of the Epiphany, Gipton The Church of the Epiphany (also known as the Bishop Burroughs Memorial Church of the Epiphany) in Gipton, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England is an active Anglican parish church in the archdeaconry of Leeds and the Diocese of Leeds. The church is
Epiphany (feeling) was only published posthumously in 1944. For the philosopher Emmanuel Lévinas, epiphany or a manifestation of the divine is seen in another's face (see face-to-face). In traditional and pre-modern cultures, initiation rites and mystery religions have served as vehicles of epiphany, as well as the arts. The Greek dramatists and poets would, in the ideal, induct the audience into states of "catharsis" or "kenosis", respectively. In modern times an epiphany lies behind the title of William Burroughs' "Naked Lunch", a drug-influenced state, as Burroughs explained, "a frozen moment when everyone sees what is at the end of the fork." Both