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St. Thomas Aquinas and Church Architecture By Giles R. Dimmock, O.P. |
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Because a church is a visible building it stands as a special sign of the pilgrim
Church on earth and reflects one Church dwelling in Heaven.
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In the early sixties when I was being taught theology as a young Dominican Friar, St. Thomas Aquinas still reigned supreme as the universal teacher of the Catholic Church, although cracks were beginning to show in solidity of his appreciation by theologians who later saw him practically set aside at Vatican Council II.
As a callow young friar I was excited by the movement to return to the Bible and the Fathers in theology, and was tired of trying to connect the Angelic Doctor’s thought with every conceivable reality or theory as if he himself had said it (ipse dixit) all first. Now older and I hope wiser, I rejoice in the modest Thomistic revival we now experience, although I don’t wish to return to the triumphalistic Thomism of the forties and fifties...
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