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The Spirit of 'Mediator Dei' By Denis McNamara |
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The renewal of church architecture before Vatican II
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It is generally thought by liturgists and theorists of liturgical architecture that little occurred in the area of renewal of church design before the Second Vatican Council. The architectural modernism of the post-Conciliar era has therefore often been thought to represent the Council’s artistic intentions. However, before the Council, church architecture had already undergone significant change in response to the Liturgical Movement and Pius XII’s encyclical Mediator Dei (1947).
Statements of popes, architects, and pioneers of the Liturgical Movement point to a liturgical and architectural context which presents a vastly different approach to architecture than the stark interiors presented by many architects after the Council.
Despite the prevailing belief that architectural modernism was the...
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