Main entry:

McNamara, Denis R. (Denis Robert), author.

Title & Author:

Catholic church architecture and the spirit of the liturgy / Denis R. McNamara ; [foreword by Scott Hahn].

Publication:

Chicago : Hillenbrand Books, [2009]
©2009

Description:

xiii, 225 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Lex orandi, Lex credendi, Lex aedificandi : architecture as the built form of ideas -- An architecture of joy : beauty and liturgical art and architecture -- The time of shadow : the Temple and salvation -- Living stones : the New Testament and the temple -- Architecture of the Sabbath : the church as image of the heavenly Jerusalem -- Decoration : clarity through revelation of structure -- Ornament : clarity through revelation of use and purpose -- Columns and pillars of the church -- Sacred image and iconic revelation -- Historical, devotional, and liturgical images : principles for contemporary church builders and renovators -- The liturgical movement and church building -- The texts of Vatican II : looking again at Sacrosanctum concilium -- Meeting house or church : the hermeneutics of discontinuity and reform -- Conclusion. Urbs beata Jerusalem.

ISBN:

1595250271
9781595250278

Subject:

Catholic church buildings.
Liturgy and architecture.
Églises catholiques.
Liturgie et architecture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 268940
Call No.: BIB 200870
Status: Available