Youre onto something important there Even the liturgical renewal movement seems to have aesthetics and drama at the center of why traditional forms need to be recovered  From biblebelt Passion plays to  Hell House  there is a definite tiein with theater in modern ideas of church  Ive visited evangelical churches that have nothing recognizably churchy about them  pure entertainment movies football games mime concerts just about anything but rites or sermons  and its quite intentional and Ive heard that similar things are happening in trendy Roman catholic churches although I have no experience with that  Personally its repugnant But it is fact that this is happening and its not a fringe phenomenon