{"id":21211,"date":"2013-08-27T14:28:20","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T20:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=21211"},"modified":"2013-08-27T14:28:20","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T20:28:20","slug":"modern-or-traditional-10-thought-provoking-churches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2013\/08\/27\/modern-or-traditional-10-thought-provoking-churches\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern or Traditional? – 10 Thought Provoking Churches"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christian Universities Online<\/em> recently held up 10 churches it sees as challenging our traditional images of the church building.\u00a0 Its choice of the phrase \u201cbizarrely beautiful\u201d to describe these thought provoking designs seems more than appropriate.<\/p>\n

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Looking at these churches makes me think of the 4th century Christians who experienced the legalization of Christianity and the adoption of the then modern and progressive basilica style for church architecture.\u00a0 There is something deeply traditional in these 10 church designs in that they mirror the tendency of the Church, at its best, to appropriate to itself those things from the surrounding culture which allow it to speak to the then \u201cmodern\u201d world.\u00a0 So is there really any difference between these churches and the churches of Constantine?<\/p>\n

Read the post here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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