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Liturgy and Architecture (Hardcover)
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Liturgy and Architecture (Hardcover)
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Ritual and architecture have provided the abstract and the tangible
foundations of group worship from the era of the first Christians
to the present-day ceremonial of the Church. Through the centuries
the buildings that house liturgical practices have developed their
own specific individuality, and the interpretation of the liturgy
is reflected in architecture, a reflection in stone of community
prayer lives. The early Syrian churches, the Roman basilicas, the
Byzantine, Gothic, and Romanesque styles of the Western churches
are symbols of the adaptation of architecture to liturgy—of style
to content. Father Bouyer replaces myths and misconceptions about
Church liturgy with facts based on archeological findings and, in
doing so, gives an entirely new concept of the importance of Church
architecture as an implementation of liturgical worship. "Builders
of modern churches, says Father Bouyer, "seem to lack that inspired
touch.... We try to furnish our churches with features picked at
random from old routine styles." To make Church architecture a
contemporary witness to the liturgy, it is the author's belief that
past practices must be examined to see if they are irrevocably
welded to the past or flexible enough to reapply to the present. To
discover—or rediscover—the meaning of the liturgy demands an
over-all perspective necessary to remodel and structure our
churches of today.
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