Honesty and Consecration: Paul Tillich’s Criteria for a Religious Architecture

¹ Tillich’s writings specifically concerned with art and architecture have been gathered together in a book On Art and Architecture [hereafter OAA], ed. John and Jane Dillenberger (New York, 1989). They are: ‘Theology and Architecture’, pp. 188-98; ‘On the Theology of Fine Art and Architecture’, pp. 204-13; ‘Contemporary Protestant Architecture’, pp. 214-20; ‘Honesty and Consecration in Art and Architecture’, pp. 221-8. The opening quotation is on p. 221.

² OAA, p. 9.

³ Details of their work can be found in Henze, A. and Filthaut, T., Contemporary Church Art (New York, 1956); Rapp, Dom Urban, ‘Modern Church Architecture’, in Ryan, V., ed., Studies in Pastoral Liturgy, 2 (Dublin, 1963); Maguire, R. and Murray, K., Modern Churches of the World (London and New York, 1965); Gieselmann, R., Contemporary Church Architecture (London, 1972), pp. 10–24.

⁴ See the entry by Debuyst, F., ‘Architectural Setting (Modern) and the Liturgical Movement’, in Davies, J. G., ed., A Dictionary of Liturgy and Worship, 1st edn (London, 1972), pp. 30–41.

⁵ The expression appears to have been coined by Malcolm Diamond in Contemporary Philosophy and Religious Thought (New York, 1974), pp. 305-89.

⁶ , W. and Pauck, M., Paul Tillich: His Life and Thought (London, 1977), p. 228.

⁷ OAA, p. 215.

⁸ Ibid., p. 216.

⁹ See Barth, Karl, ‘The architectural problem of Protestant places of worship’, in Biéler, A., ed., Architecture in Worship (Edinburgh, 1965), pp. 92–3.

¹⁰ OAA, p. 217.

¹¹ Ibid., p. 193.

¹² Ibid., p. 213.

¹³ Ibid., p. 218.

¹⁴ OAA, p-192.

¹⁵ Tillich, Paul, Systematic Theology, 3 (Digswell Place, 1964), p. 212.

¹⁶ OAA, pp. 222-3.

¹⁷ Ibid., p. 225.

¹⁸ 18 Ibid., p. 211.

¹⁹ Tillich, Paul, Dynamics of Faith (New York, 1957), pp. 41–54 ; Johnson, M. E., ‘The Place of Sacraments in the Theology of Paul Tillich’, Worship, 63 (1989), pp. 17–31.

²⁰ 20 OAA, p. 193.

²¹ OAA, p.227.

²² Ibid, p. 194.