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Archi‐Liturgical Culture Wars
Author(s) -
Nichols Rev Aidan
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
new blackfriars
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1741-2005
pISSN - 0028-4289
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-2005.2007.00207.x
Subject(s) - altar , architecture , space (punctuation) , art , epoch (astronomy) , liturgy , theology , history , philosophy , art history , visual arts , computer science , linguistics , stars , computer vision
From a comparison of the much‐discussed and supposedly epoch‐making Neo‐Modernist ‘Jubilee church’ in Rome and a new study of John Ninian Comper's church architecture, the article enquires into theologically informed principles of church design and in their light considers some crucial elements in the symbolics of ecclesial space, notably altar, screen, communion rails and tabernacle.