The Movement for the Renewal of Portuguese Religious Art (1952/67)

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Abstract

In the success with which the members of the Movement for the Renewal of Religious Art (MRAR, 1952/67), in a committed way, sought in community to build an alternative to the current architecture, sustained in the search for the Christian principle of artistic honesty, We try in this communication to find elective affinities with the thought of the theologians Paul Tillich (1886-1965) and Louis Bouyer (1913-2004). We associate these affinities with a common understanding of the meaning of the office of architecture, of the defense of an adult religion founded on the permanent updating of Christian sources, which never stopped sprouting, and in the search for a sense of life, rooted in the communitarian sense of the Christian vocation.