Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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In his own churches, Belluschi (a Roman Catholic who has worked as well for Lutherans, Episcopalians and Jews) is responsible for the inclusion of such traditional equipment as candlesticks and crucifixes, calls in such modernists as Sculptor Richard Lippold and Painter Gyorgy Kepes to help. He demands that artists use...
Altar in the Center. Tradition is proving a challenge and a help to modern church architects in unexpected ways. A prime example is the fast-growing liturgical movement, both Roman Catholic and Protestant, which emphasizes the centrality of the Mass or Communion for the church, and goes back for precedent...
Out of this liturgical movement has come a demand for the altar-centered church. In 1942 Roman Catholic St. Mark's in Burlington, Vt. experimented with placing the sanctuary with altar at the crossing of nave and transepts, thus making it visible from three sides. In 1948 the Episcopalians...
Apostolic Simplicity. This liturgical reform rejects the medieval practice that made the church service an awesome mystery and spectacle seen in deep perspective and culminating in the moment when, to the tinkling of bells, the Host and chalice are raised on high. As clergy and congregation have begun to draw...
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