Outside a few rare examples such as Ronchamp, I sense that Modernism has failed to deliver an architecture that connects with most Catholics and other traditional Christians. Much of this has to do with fact that Modernism as a cultural movement is inherently atheistic as it is based on a secular materialist philosophy. — newgeography.com
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Is that a rock bottom creek? Ever toss in a fly line and see what you can pull out?
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I think the thorncrown chapel is officially non-denominational. on googling, I came across one reviewer whose opinion is that the preaching gravitates towards the Pentecostal. Therefore more evangelical protestant than catholic, if one accepts the reviewer's judgment.
Which could make sense in one sense. I believe Protestants can have a ceremony anywhere, even in a mall foodcourt! ; they even makeup their own Bible interpretation as they go along, very little authority, control of interpretation, gravitas of tradition. I mean, it makes sense because in a way thorncrown chapel comes across being more easy to associate with a pantheistic - therefore non Christian- spirituality. The symbolized dissolution (it is, of course, just symbolized) into (or out-to) the surrounding structures, materiality and light, the democracy of light and the democratic structural pattern...yes, more pantheistic than Christian. I'm not saying, of course, that Protestantism isn;t Christianity or that it is pantheistic..no, of course. But perhaps its appropriateness is in how nonchalantthe symbolism of the physical church is to it, the symbolism of a worldliness (roman Catholicism would not see it this way, the Church -its symbolism, its tradition, its physicality- is, of course, deeply rooted within the religion).
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