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Book Review: Being Disciples: Essentials of the Christian Life

move to recover much of the “catholic” elements of the worship space, its focus on transcendence and its inspirational and pedagogical functions, results in overlooking the shift in the other direction by some postconciliar Catholic churches and the aesthetic of architect Frank Kacmarcik, OSB, and his Lutheran counterpoint Edward Sovik. Their immanental approach to worship spaces, beautifully and simply adorned, focus more along the horizontal axis than the vertical, reflecting a move toward the ecumenical center from the Catholic towards the Protestant. All of this has the affect of this volume seeming like “Cambridge Movement 2.0,” with its appeal to the medieval church and its art and architecture as an aesthetic point of reference. In the end, this work is an apologia, as well as mystagogia, for a particular type of “ecumenism of beauty.” Disappointingly, as well as ironically, it lacks a Lutheran voice, the inclusion of which would seem only appropriate give that the Reformation is its point of reference. That being said, this could be a helpful volume for a congregation with leanings sympathetic to this project for conversations about aesthetic and architectural changes to their worship space, or for artists of faith looking for a source of contemporary examples of liturgical art and artists and their integration of faith and art. That being said, the most lasting impression may well be the beauty of this volume, and how a picture still surpasses words in the economy of communication.