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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.
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