Phillip Nielsen is a Ph.D candidate in architecture at Texas A&M University. He studied theology and architecture at the graduate level at the University of Notre Dame. He has written on aesthetics for various journals.
Today’s offering in our Timeless Essay series affords readers the opportunity to join Philip Nielsen, as he explores the thought of Hans Urs von Balthasar on sacred architecture. —W. Winston Elliott III, Publisher
The theological...
The Baltimore Basilica: America's First Cathedral, by Mary-Cabrini Durkin.
In America’s First Cathedral, Mary-Cabrini Durkin presents a beautifully illustrated history of the Baltimore diocese’s cathedral from Latrobe’s original designs through its rise...
Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe
Duncan G. Stroik, The Church Building as a Sacred Place: Beauty, Transcendence and the Eternal. Chicago: Hillenbrand Books, 2012. 182 pages, 170 photographs and...
Hans Urs von Balthasar
The theological work of twentieth-century theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar has only recently begun to take its proper place in Catholic theology. In his lifetime he certainly...
