McNamara, Denis R. <br/><br/>
Catholic church architecture and the spirit of the liturgy /  txt 
McNamara, Denis R. (Denis Robert) 
 - xiii, 225 p.  ill. (some col.)  29 cm.  book 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Lex orandi, Lex credendi, Lex aedificandi : architecture as the built form of ideas -- An architecture of joy : beauty and liturgical art and architecture -- The time of shadow : the Temple and salvation -- Living stones : the New Testament and the temple -- Architecture of the Sabbath : the church as image of the heavenly Jerusalem -- Decoration : clarity through revelation of structure -- Ornament : clarity through revelation of use and purpose -- Columns and pillars of the church -- Sacred image and iconic revelation -- Historical, devotional, and liturgical images : principles for contemporary church builders and renovators -- The liturgical movement and church building -- The texts of Vatican II : looking again at Sacrosanctum concilium -- Meeting house or church : the hermeneutics of discontinuity and reform -- Conclusion. Urbs beata Jerusalem. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781595250278 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2009935282 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Catholic church buildings<br/>Liturgy and architecture.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>NA4828  / M36 2009 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>726.5/82