Theology and Form

Nicholas Denysenko

Description

How do space and architecture shape liturgical celebrations within a parish? In Theology and Form: Contemporary Orthodox Architecture in America, Nicholas Denysenko profiles seven contemporary Eastern Orthodox communities in the United States and analyzes how their ecclesiastical identities are affected by their physical space and architecture. He begins with an overview of the Orthodox architectural heritage and its relation to liturgy and ecclesiology, including topics such as stational liturgy, mobility of the assembly, the symbiosis between celebrants and assembly, placement of musicians, and festal processions representative of the Orthodox liturgy. Chapters 2–7 present comparative case studies of seven Orthodox parishes. Some of these have purchased their property and built new edifices; Denysenko analyzes how contemporary architecture makes use of sacred space and engages visitors. Others are mission parishes that purchased existing properties and buildings, posing challenges for and limitations of their liturgical practices. The book concludes with a reflection on how these parish examples might contribute to the future trajectory of Orthodox architecture in America and its dialogical relationship with liturgy and ecclesial identity.

Sujets

• Religion
• Christianisme
• Buildings
• Religious
• Philosophie et théologie
• Building
• Theology
• Orthodox
• Eastern Orthodox Church
• Christianity

Informations

• Publié par: University of Notre Dame Press
• Date de parution: 30 mai 2017
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780268100155
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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THEOLOGY AND FORM
NICHOLAS DENYSENKO
THEOLOGY AND FORM
CONTEMPORARY ORTHODOX ARCHITECTURE IN AMERICA
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
NOTRE DAME, INDIANA
University of Notre Dame Press
Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
undpress.nd.edu
Copyright 2017 by the University of Notre Dame
All Rights Reserved
Published in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Denysenko, Nicholas E., author.
Title: Theology and form : contemporary Orthodox architecture in America / Nicholas Denysenko.
Description: Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016053422 (print) | LCCN 2017000898 (ebook) | ISBN 9780268100124 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 0268100128 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780268100148 (pdf) | ISBN 9780268100155 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Orthodox Eastern church buildings - United States - History - 20th century. | Architecture and society - United States - History - 20th century. | Church architecture - United States - History - 20th century. | Liturgy and architecture -United States - History - 20th century.
Classification: LCC NA5212 .D46 2017 (print) | LCC NA5212 (ebook) | DDC 246/.950973 - dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016053422
ISBN 9780268100155
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To Greg Denysenko
My big brother who understands
my sense of awe and wonder
CONTENTS

List of Tables and Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction
ONE
Orthodox Architecture: Honoring the Past
TWO
St. Katherine Ukrainian Orthodox Church
THREE
St. Matthew Orthodox Church
FOUR
Holy Virgin Cathedral
FIVE
Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church
SIX
St. Vladimir s Seminary and New Skete Monastery
SEVEN
Joy of All Who Sorrow Orthodox Church (JOY) Mission

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index
LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES
TABLES
Table 2.1 Architectural Plan of St. Katherine Ukrainian Orthodox Church
Table C.1 Immigrant, Liturgical Renewal, and American Church Models
FIGURES
Figure 2.1 St. Katherine Ukrainian Orthodox Church, exterior (courtesy of Maya Gregoret)
Figure 2.2 St. Katherine Ukrainian Orthodox Church, site plan (courtesy of Oleh Gregoret)
Figure 2.3 St. Katherine Ukrainian Orthodox Church, interior (courtesy of Maya Gregoret)
Figure 2.4 St. Katherine Ukrainian Orthodox Church, parish hall (courtesy of Maya Gregoret)
Figure 2.5 Icon of Kyiv Sophia (photo by author)
Figure 2.6 St. Katherine Ukrainian Orthodox Church, sanctuary, icons (photo by author)
Figure 2.7 St. Katherine Ukrainian Orthodox Church, museum, bandura (photo by author)
Figure 2.8 St. Katherine Ukrainian Orthodox Church, museum, Democracy , oil painting by Orysia Sinitowich-Gorsky (photo by author)
Figure 3.1 St. Matthew Orthodox Church, exterior (photo by author)
Figure 3.2 St. Matthew Orthodox Church, narthex (photo by author)
Figure 3.3 St. Matthew Orthodox Church, dome (photo by author)
Figure 3.4 St. Matthew Orthodox Church, iconostasis (photo by author)
Figure 3.5 St. Matthew Orthodox Church, Theophany icon, painted by Wayne Hajos (photo courtesy of John Hudak)
Figure 3.6 Icon of Platytera and Mystical Supper (photo by author)
Figure 3.7 St. Matthew House (photo by author)
Figure 4.1 Holy Virgin Cathedral, exterior (photo by author)
Figure 4.2 Holy Virgin Cathedral, interior (photo courtesy of Helen Sinelnikoff-Nowak)
Figure 4.3 Shrine of St. John Maximovich (photo courtesy of Helen Sinelnikoff-Nowak)
Figure 4.4 Icon of the Ancient of Days, painted by Archimandrite Kyprian Pyzhov (photo courtesy of Helen Sinelnikoff-Nowak)
Figure 4.5 Icon of the Mystical Supper (photo courtesy of Helen Sinelnikoff-Nowak)
Figure 4.6 Icon of St. John Maximovich (photo courtesy of Helen Sinelnikoff-Nowak)
Figure 5.1 Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, exterior (photo by author)
Figure 5.2 Greek Orthodox Manor (photo by author)
Figure 5.3 Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, fountain (photo by author)
Figure 5.4 Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, lightree (photo by author)
Figure 5.5 Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, narthex (photo by author)
Figure 5.6 Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, sanctuary (photo by author)
Figure 5.7 Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, interior (photo by author)
Figure 5.8 Platytera Theotokos icon (photo by author)
Figure 5.9 Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, bishop s cathedra (photo by author)
Figure 5.10 Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, chapel in basement (photo by author)
Figure 5.11 Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, gallery (photo by author)
Figure 6.1 Three Hierarchs Chapel (photo by author)
Figure 6.2 Three Hierarchs Chapel, original iconostasis (photo courtesy of Georges Florovsky Library at St. Vladimir s Seminary)
Figure 6.3 Three Hierarchs Chapel, diakonikon (skeuophylakion) (photo by author)
Figure 6.4 Three Hierarchs Chapel, Pantocrator in the dome (photo by author)
Figure 6.5 Holy Transfiguration Church, New Skete Monastery (photo by author)
Figure 6.6 Church of the Holy Wisdom, New Skete Monastery (photo by author)
Figure 6.7 Church of the Holy Wisdom, New Skete Monastery, nave (photo by author)
Figure 6.8 Church of the Holy Wisdom, New Skete Monastery, sanctuary templon (photo by author)
Figure 6.9 Church of the Holy Wisdom, New Skete Monastery, nave, frescoes of Father Alexander Men, Archbishop Michael Ramsey, Patriarch Athenagoras, and Pope Paul VI (without halos), painted by Deacon Iakov Ferencz (photo by author)
Figure 6.10 Church of the Holy Wisdom, New Skete Monastery, nave, frescoes of Mother Maria Skobtsova, Dorothy Day, Father Lev Gillet, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, and Father Alexander Schmemann (without halos), painted by Deacon Iakov Ferencz (photo by author)
Figure 7.1 Joy of All Who Sorrow Orthodox Church (JOY) mission (photo by author)
Figure 7.2 Joy of All Who Sorrow Orthodox Church (JOY) mission, iconostasis (photo by author)
Figure 7.3 Joy of All Who Sorrow Orthodox Church (JOY) mission, relics (photo by author)
Figure 7.4 Joy of All Who Sorrow Orthodox Church (JOY) mission, Pantocrator (photo by author)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This project began in 2011 and I am grateful for the feedback I received from participants at the Eastern Orthodox Studies and Space, Place, and Religious Meaning groups of the American Academy of Religion, the Environment and Art seminar of the North American Academy of Religion, and colleagues at Loyola Marymount University. Special thanks to the following friends and colleagues who have vetted chapter drafts and offered valuable feedback throughout the writing and editing process: Jeanne Kilde, Richard Vosko, Adam DeVille, David Fagerberg, Dorian Llywelyn, SJ, Father Oliver Herbel, Deacon Andrei Psarev, Sister Vassa Larin, Father Michael Plekon, and Kevin Seasoltz, OSB, of blessed memory. I am particularly grateful to Gil Klein, my colleague in Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University, who engaged me in several conversations and offered feedback and encouragement as I wrestled with the project. The book would have been impossible without the enthusiastic cooperation of numerous representatives of the parishes and communities I profiled in this study. Warm and hearty thanks to Maya Gregoret and Wanda Bahmet of St. Katherine Ukrainian Orthodox Church, along with Oleh Gregoret of blessed memory; Wayne Hajos, Susan Petry, Anastasia Borichevsky, and Father Constantine White at St. Matthew Orthodox Church, along with Charles Alexander at Broken Boxes; Father Peter Perekrestov, Vladimir Krassovsky, and Helen Sinelnikoff-Nowak of Holy Virgin Cathedral; Father Angelo Artemis of Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church; Paul Meyendorff, Father Alexander Rentel, Father John Erickson (emeritus), and Matthew Garklavs of St. Vladimir s Seminary, along with Father Alexis Vinogradov of St. Gregory the Theologian Orthodox Church in Wappingers Falls, New York; the monks and nuns of New Skete Monastery, who graciously hosted me for a four-hour discussion on various topics after Vespers on June 14, 2014, especially Brother Stavros Winner; and Father John Tomasi of Joy of All Who Sorrow Orthodox Church (JOY) mission in Culver City. Everyone mentioned here represents a living Orthodox community in America, and I am immensely grateful for the hospitality with which I have been received during every visit and interview. As always, special thanks to Tresja and Sophia for enduring the hundreds of long hours I devoted to this project.
INTRODUCTION
Most books about architecture are written by architectural historians or practicing architects. In this book, the reader will encounter references to architectural history, including classical works by Cyril Mango and Thomas Mathews, along with new scholarship by Vasileios Marinis and Nicholas Patricios. 1 The reader should note that this book will not be following the pattern established by these luminaries, as I am neither an architect nor an architectural historian. Because I am a student and scholar of liturgical studies and sacramental theology with a passion for ecclesiology, the objectives of my book do not follow the traditional patterns of architectural history.
I begin with a few experiences that motivated and inspired this study. As a child and teenager, I attended Saints Volodymyr and Ol ha Orthodox parish in St. Paul, Minnesota, where my grandfather was the pastor. Composed largely of post-World War II immigrants from Ukraine, the parish could not afford a new structure and gathered in a historic building that had functioned as a theater and church over the course of its long history. The worship space in the building wa