Catholic Church Architecture and the Spirit of the Liturgy
Author: Denis Robert McNamara
Publisher: LiturgyTrainingPublications
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1595250271
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Denis Robert McNamara
Publisher: LiturgyTrainingPublications
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1595250271
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Denis Robert McNamara
Publisher: LiturgyTrainingPublications
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9781568545035
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This visually stunning and carefully researched book encompasses some of the most significant Catholic churches of Chicago, addressing both their architectural and theological significance. Color photographs beautifully illustrate the insightful text. It is a book suitable for those interested in local history, architectural achievement, theological awareness, or those who simply desire to glory in the visual beauty of Chicago's historic churches.
Author: Robert Proctor
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-05-23
Total Pages: 487
ISBN-13: 1317170857
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Fifty years after the Second Vatican Council, architectural historian Robert Proctor examines the transformations in British Roman Catholic church architecture that took place in the two decades surrounding this crucial event. Inspired by new thinking in theology and changing practices of worship, and by a growing acceptance of modern art and architecture, architects designed radical new forms of church building in a campaign of new buildings for new urban contexts. A focussed study of mid-twentieth century church architecture, Building the Modern Church considers how architects and clergy constructed the image and reality of the Church as an institution through its buildings. The author examines changing conceptions of tradition and modernity, and the development of a modern church architecture that drew from the ideas of the liturgical movement. The role of Catholic clergy as patrons of modern architecture and art and the changing attitudes of the Church and its architects to modernity are examined, explaining how different strands of post-war architecture were adopted in the field of ecclesiastical buildings. The church building’s social role in defining communities through rituals and symbols is also considered, together with the relationships between churches and modernist urban planning in new towns and suburbs. Case studies analysed in detail include significant buildings and architects that have remained little known until now. Based on meticulous historical research in primary sources, theoretically informed, fully referenced, and thoroughly illustrated, this book will be of interest to anyone concerned with the church architecture, art and theology of this period.
Author: Catherine R. Osborne
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2018-04-24
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 022656116X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the mid-twentieth century, American Catholic churches began to shed the ubiquitous spires, stained glass, and gargoyles of their European forebears, turning instead toward startling and more angular structures of steel, plate glass, and concrete. But how did an institution like the Catholic Church, so often seen as steeped in inflexible traditions, come to welcome this modernist trend? Catherine R. Osborne’s innovative new book finds the answer: the alignment between postwar advancements in technology and design and evolutionary thought within the burgeoning American Catholic community. A new, visibly contemporary approach to design, church leaders thought, could lead to the rebirth of the church community of the future. As Osborne explains, the engineering breakthroughs that made modernist churches feasible themselves raised questions that were, for many Catholics, fundamentally theological. Couldn’t technological improvements engender worship spaces that better reflected God's presence in the contemporary world? Detailing the social, architectural, and theological movements that made modern churches possible, American Catholics and the Churches of Tomorrow breaks important new ground in the history of American Catholicism, and also presents new lines of thought for scholars attracted to modern architectural and urban history.
Author: Ralph Adams Cram
Publisher: Boston : Marshall Jones
Published: 1924
Total Pages: 384
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Duncan Stroik
Publisher: Liturgy Training Publications
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 1595250379
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This collection of twenty-three essays by Duncan Stroik shows the development and consistency of his architectural vision. Packed with informative essays and over 170 photographs, this collection clearly articulates the Church’s architectural tradition.
Author: David W. Fagerberg
Publisher: LiturgyTrainingPublications
Published: 2022-01-07
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 1618330349
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Liturgical Theology" is often a convenient label for any theology that has loosely to do with worship or Eucharist. In this innovative book, David Fagerberg distinguishes liturgical theology from a general theology of worship. He proposes two defining attributes of liturgical theology: (1) "lex orandi": It is manifested in the Church's historical rites. (2) "theologia prima": It is theology done by the liturgical community. Theologia Prima is a thorough revision of Dr. Fagerberg's groundbreaking, What Is Liturgical Theology? A Study in Methodology (1992). It contains three new chapters as well as well as more anecdotal material derived from Dr. Fagerberg's extensive experience as a teacher and theologian.
Author: M. Rose
Publisher: Sophia Institute Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1933184442
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How Catholic churches are being sapped of their spiritual vitality and what you can do about it The problem with new-style churches isn't just that they're ugly they actually distort the Faith and lead Catholics away from Catholicism. So argues Michel S. Rose in these eye-opening pages, which banish forever the notion that lovers of traditional-style churches are motivated simply by taste or nostalgia. In terms that non-architects can understand (and modern architects can't dismiss!), Rose shows that far more is at stake: modern churches actually violate the three natural laws of church architecture and lead Catholics to worship, quite simply, a false god.
Author: Seely J. Beggiani
Publisher: CUA Press
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 0813227011
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Presents the insights of St. Ephrem and Jacob of Serugh, two of the earliest representatives of the theological world-view of the Syriac church.