| Ugly as Sin by Michael S. Rose |
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| Synopsis The problem with new-style churches isn't just that they're ugly - they actually distort the Faith and lead Catholics away from Catholicism. So argues Michael S. Rose in these eye-opening pages, which banish forever the notion that lovers of traditional-style churches are motivated simply by taste or nostalgia. In terms that non-architects can understand (and modern architects can't dismiss!), Rose shows that far more is at stake: modern churches actually violate the three natural laws of church architecture and lead Catholics to worship, quite simply, a false god. Not content to limit himself to theory, Rose in Ugly as Sin takes you on a revealing tour through a traditional church and a modern church. He shows conclusively how the traditional church communicates the Faith, while the modern one simply doesn't. In the process, he'll give you a renewed understanding, love, and gratitude for the gift of faith that is your traditional church - plus a keener sense of just what's wrong with modern churches that look like anything but churches. Rose provides you with solid arguments (as easy to explain as they are hard to refute!) and practical tools that you can use to reverse the dangerous trend toward desacralized churches - and to make our churches once again into magnificent Houses of God! From The Critics Benedict Groeschel - CFR, author, The Journey Toward God "Modern Christians generally have a deficient sense of the sacred and the transcendent. Church architecture has been one of the most painful examples of this theological deconstructionism. Rose gives hope and a way out of the mess." Paul Thigpen - author, Blood of the Martyrs, Seed of the Church It will open the eyes of many Catholics who have been manipulated into accepting and even bankrolling the architectural outrages of our day. And it is must reading for all those who have ever wept to see the altars replaced by butcher blocks, the Tabernacles banished to janitors' closets, and the faithful corralled into barren monstrosities that mimic the shopping mall, the gymnasium, the theater, and the warehouse." Alice von Hildebrand - author, The Soul of a Lion "A cry of protest against a new form of blasphemy: blasphemy in stone and cement." |