Louis Bouyer creator text Indiana University of Notre Dame Press 1967 monographic eng

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127 p. 21 cm. "Ritual and architecture have provided the abstract and the tangible foundations of group worship from the era of the first Christians to the present-day ceremonial of the Church. Through the centuries the buildings that house liturgical practices have developed their own specific individuality, and the interpretation of the liturgy is reflected in architecture, a reflection in stone of community prayer lives. The early Syrian churches, the Roman basilicas, the Byzantine, Gothic, and Romanesque styles of the Western churches are symbols of the adaptation of architecture to liturgy—of style to content." NA4605 .B613 726.5 1 978-0268001599 260605 20260605124937.0