TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dilasser,Maurice
TI  - The Symbols of the church
SN  - 0-8146-2538-X
U1  - Ref. 246.55 D576 1999 
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Minnesota
PB  - The Liturgical Press
KW  - Christian art and symbolism
KW  - History
KW  - Catholic church
KW  - Liturgy
N1  - Includes index.
Translated by Mary Cabrini Durkin, Madeleine Beaumont and Caroline Morson; pt. 1: Symbols of the Christian world. The world and its image ; The inhabitants of the heavenly and terrestrial worlds ; The world subject to humanity ; Elements, space, and time --
pt. 2: Church symbolism. Evolution of churches and their symbolism --
pt. 3: Permanent Church signs --
N2  - Science has its own language; the arts have another. Religion uses especially the language of the arts, for it uses signs and symbols, like bridges from the visible to the invisible, from the depths to the heights, from the earthly world to the heavenly one, from humanity to God. The symbol is not an object of worship, but invites to worship. It leads to the encounter with the divine. Its language takes an object or an action and from it evokes something other, which is often inexpressible, by virtue of some correspondence, natural association, or convention.--From publisher description.
ER  -