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American Catholics and the Church of tomorrow : building churches for the future, 1925-1975

Catherine R. Osborne (Author)
This text asks why 20th century American Catholics stopped building churches that looked back to the middles ages, and began building churches that for the present and the future. It argues that belief in an evolutionary universe, a biological paradigm, united Catholic liturgists and modernist architects, enabling the development of a futurist architecture

eBook, English, 2018
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2018