No Place for God: The Denial of Transcendence in Modern Church Architecture
InNo Place for GodMoyra Doorly examines the architecture of religious immanence and finds it wanting. The embrace of Modernist architecture by the Church is astonishing given the philosophical underpinnings of its founders and their stated intention of rejecting hierarchy, symbolism and tradition. Contemporary Modernists not only reject the past, but have sought to discredit and destroy it by the stripping of historical churches and the constructing of new ones which have no sense of the sacred. Yet, the Tradition of ecclesiastical architecture continues to speak to the faithful in a way sympathetic to their beliefs and will continue to do so long after the current experiments in Los Angeles, Oakland, Rome, Milwaukee and San Giovanni Rotondo go out of style. --Prof. Duncan Stroik