Ugly as sin : why they changed our churches from sacred places to meeting spaces and how we can change them back again / Michael S. Rose.

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Rose, Michael S., 1969-

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Ugly as sin : why they changed our churches from sacred places to meeting spaces and how we can change them back again / Michael S. Rose.

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Description:

viii, 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

A Forthright Edition

Notes:
"A Forthright Edition."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-221).
The three natural laws of church architecture (or, the minimum you need to know to evaluate the church down the street) -- Our pilgrim goes into the house of the Lord (or, the essential elements of every proper church) -- Our pilgrim goes into the worship space of the people (or, why you find it so hard to pray in that modern church) -- Why modern architects secularized our churches (or, bad theology has done more damage than bad taste) -- How we can make our churches Catholic again (or, what the Vatican wants you to do to help restore the faith in our day).
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"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.

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Table of contents

ISBN:

1928832369 (alk. paper)
9781928832362 (alk. paper)
1933184442
9781933184449

Subject:

Catholic church buildings.
Church architecture.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture, Modern.
Églises catholiques.
Architecture chrétienne.
Architecture 20e siècle.
churches (buildings)
Catholic church buildings United States.
Church architecture United States.
Architecture United States 20th century

Added entries:

Forthright Edition.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 228517
Call No.: NA4828 .R67 2001
Status: Available

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