CHURCH ART: FROM WORSHIP OF GOD, TO WORSHIP OF MAN
🌿 Father Lucas Christensen, a scholar focused on the liturgical arts, joins Father Andrew Stephen Damick (YT channel) to discuss the enchantment of Church art and architecture in the grand sweep of Christian history. In the wake of Reformation iconoclasm and the reorientation of sacred art from the Renaissance onward, is it possible for Christians in the West to engage in the project of re-enchantment? What does the Orthodox Church have to say in this conversation?
Dec. 16, 2025 Father Andrew Stephen Damick: Re-enchantment in Church Art and Architecture (w/ Fr. Lucas Christensen).
Fathers Andrew and Lucas discuss a rarely tackled subject, the transition from the worship of God to the worship of man in Humanism: the orientation of the priests facing the altar, back to the congregation, to the 'theater mode', priests facing the congregation.
It has a corollary in art, from art as the handmaiden of the Church to art appreciated for its own sake.
This happened of course in the Roman Catholic Church after Vatican II, along with a string of other innovations that would simply be unthinkable in Orthodoxy.
On Aug. 30, 2025 icon carver and podcaster at the Symbolic World, Jonathan Pageau posted a video on the subject of Church art and architecture, titled, "Why Architecture Continues to be Ugly" (link).
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