Title American Catholics and the Church of tomorrow : building churches for the future, 1925-1975 / Catherine R. Osborne

Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource Contents The biological paradigm -- Modeling the church -- Theology in concrete -- Pilgrims of the future -- The secular city -- "What is a Church?" -- Conclusion Summary This text asks why 20th century American Catholics stopped building churches that looked back to the middles ages, and began building churches that for the present and the future. It argues that belief in an evolutionary universe, a biological paradigm, united Catholic liturgists and modernist architects, enabling the development of a futurist architecture Analysis American Catholicism Catholic Church Church Architecture Ecclesiology Eschatology Liturgical Studies Modern Architecture Religion and Science Second Vatican Council Vatican II Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 19, 2018) Subject Catholic church buildings -- United States -- History -- 20th century Modern movement (Architecture) -- United States -- History -- 20th century Modernism (Christian theology) -- Catholic Church -- History -- 20th century ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Religious. Catholic church buildings Modern movement (Architecture) Modernism (Christian theology) -- Catholic Church United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780226561165 022656116X

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