Word: gothic
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...trumpets blared, the procession of robed clerics marched slowly through the crowded nave of Washington's vaulted Gothic National Cathedral. In side the chancel, the Rt. Rev. Arthur Lichtenberger addressed the stocky, grey-haired cleric who succeeds him as Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church: "I, Arthur, do induct and install you, Right Reverend Father in God, John, into the office of Presiding Bishop, with all its rights, dignities, honors, and privileges. May our Lord Jesus Christ preserve your going out and your coming in, from this time forth forevermore. Amen...
...great 12th century Augustinian monk, Hugh of St. Victor, explained the uniquely European religious art form that turned Gothic cathedrals into lanterns of light. Today a new generation of Christian churches (more than 3,000 in West Germany alone) has arisen. Once again artisans of stained glass have been called back into service to enliven, enrich and ennoble houses of worship (see color pages...
...cathedral-sized church of Notre Dame in Royan. Pioneered in Europe by the late French architect Auguste Ferret, it makes possible spans and spires undreamed of by medieval minds. To fill in the voids, glass craftsmen have been called upon to hang handsome curtains that would have as tonished Gothic glassmakers. These new, iridescent walls of glass lend a ripple of color to otherwise oatmeal-grey concrete. The glassmakers must work hand in hand with the architect. Says France's best-known glass designer, Gabriel Loire, 60: "We do not come in at the last moment just to fill...
While Freikorps riflemen rumbled through the streets, the artist crumpled figures up like wastepaper, tumbled them in zigzag planes, froze them in wooden postures that recalled German Gothic altarpieces. No picture better sums up his horror than The Night. Some of his source material came from his drawings in operating rooms in Flanders, but his ghastly torture scene was even more prophetic than he knew. It was to be repeated all over again 14 years later when the Nazis came to power...
...many critics within the churches wondered whether the Sunday-morning crowds indicated much more than conformism born out of fear of "the bomb." Many of these same critics are now analyzing the evidences of a new spirit of Christian responsibility that is transforming many suburban churches, both old neo-Gothic and new fish-shaped. One sign is the number of Christians who form study groups to read the Bible and such avant-garde works as Bishop John Robinson's Honest to God and Paul Tillich's Systematic Theology. And taking Christianity seriously often leads to grappling with contemporary...