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The Church Building as a Sacred Place: Beauty, Transcendence, and the Eternal Hardcover – December 19, 2012

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  • Hardcover: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Liturgy Training Publications; First Edition edition (December 19, 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1595250379
  • ISBN-13: 978-1595250377
  • Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.5 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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5.0 out of 5 starsA masterful work in a neglected field
By Sacred Art Lover on January 25, 2013
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Duncan Stroik's new book on Sacred Architecture (Amazon is mistaken, it is a 2012 book) is the product of 20 years of work as one of the leading Catholic church architects and as a professor and Notre Dame. This fact really shows up in this book; it does not read like a quick commentary upon sacred architecture, but rather as a to the point discussion of the main issues in the field.

I thought that the best thing about this book was its combination of real world knowledge about the state of the field of catholic architecture (a background that distinguishes him more purely theological writers on the subject) and profound grasp of the many church documents, regulations, historical factors and the like that all factor in this nuanced and often incompressibly complex field--as I was reading I kept thinking: "how does he know all this stuff? This ability to bring the many sides of sacred architecture to the table is what gives this book's its broad applicability and readability. Indeed, this is that valuable type of work "the specialist writing for the common man" that is so often compelling. In this sense the issues raised in this book would be valuable to every catholic priest, search committee member, and anyone interested in the field.
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5.0 out of 5 starsChampion of Beautiful Churches
By W. Foley on June 22, 2013
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By all means buy this wonderful book, and while you're waiting for it to arrive check out the author's bona fides. Dial up Thomas Aquinas College on your computer. At the top of the page click on A CATHOLIC LIFE, and then on CHAPEL. Read about Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity Chapel. This exquisite little church was designed by the author of this book, and may well be the most beautiful building of the 21st Century. It is certainly the most beautiful Catholic Church built in the last 50 years.

In addition to designing beautiful contemporary classical-based buildings in his South Bend architecture practice, Mr. Stroik is Professor of Architecture at University of Notre Dame, and is founder and editor of Sacred Architecture Journal.

My take on Duncan Stroik's talk and walk is that there is no one more qualified to lead the charge if we Catholics really want to stop building the "ugly as sin" churches we have been building for the last fifty years, and his book, The Church Building as a Sacred Place: Beauty, Transcendence, and the Eternal, is a perfect way for Catholics to come up to speed on the subject.
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5.0 out of 5 starsSpeaking Truth to Power
By Felix on June 25, 2013
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What a thought-provoking collection of essays Dr. Duncan Stroik has culled over the course of the years as he theorizes and actually constructs sacred buildings dedicated to the Catholic faith. Defying the architectural establishment and the Left Wing of the Catholic Church, Stroik is not afraid to explain how the building of Catholic sacred spaces since the mid-20th century and embracing the minimalist style of mid-century Modernism has in fact betrayed many of the core beliefs of Catholic Tradition and tradition and given us instead an architecture that serves as the misguided (and often ugly) vessel in which to deposit our Catholic faith. Stroik evidences in architecture not a hermeneutics of continuity (as Pope Emiritus Benedict XVI would have us believe has happened since the Second Vatican Council) but rather a methodical and thorough rejection and condemnation of Catholic architectural tradition, i.e., an undeniable hermeneutics of rupture. Stroik is, nevertheless, encouraging in reassuring his readers that already an esthetic and conceptual reaction against this too-long-in-the-tooth mid-century Modernisn has begun. He cites as the ideal course of action for present and future Catholic sacred architecture a growing fusion of tradition and innovation to create new and beautiful sacred buildings that will contain and express the truths of Catholic Tradition to a contemporary world. Ironically enough, it is in Post-modernism and in Urbanism that we can best find this combination of the old and the new juxtaposed to produce something totally new and of our times yet firmly linked to the architectural tradition of the last 2,000 years.Read more ›
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