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To: vladimir998
No less a Protestant authority than Ralph Adams Cram once wrote...

Seriously??? Ralph Adams Cram was not a "Protestant authority", he was an architect who at age 18, moved to Boston in 1881 and worked for five years in the architectural office of Rotch & Tilden, after which he left for Rome to study classical architecture. During an 1887 Christmas Eve mass in Rome, he had a dramatic conversion experience. For the rest of his life, he practiced as a fervent Anglo-Catholic who identified as High Church Anglican. As an author, lecturer, and architect, Cram propounded the view that the Renaissance had been, at least in part, an unfortunate detour for western culture. Cram argued that authentic development could come only by returning to Gothic sources for inspiration, as his "Collegiate Gothic" architecture did, with considerable success. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Adams_Cram

To extrapolate that Protestants "hate beauty" and Roman Catholicism is superior is nothing more than a desperate ploy to condemn non-FRoman Catholics by association. It didn't work the last time you cited this "authority", it won't this time either.

300 posted on 09/18/2014 6:39:23 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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To: boatbums

“Seriously??? Ralph Adams Cram was not a “Protestant authority”,”

He was an authority on art and architecture and the making of beautiful architecture and art - and that’s what the quote is about - beauty.


328 posted on 09/18/2014 8:09:56 PM PDT by vladimir998
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