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Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction 1 Off-Modern Profiles 2 Unpacking the Dynamics of Catholic Modernisation 3 â€œThe Eclipse of Godâ€: Transplanted Artists 4 â€œBackground Metaphoricsâ€: Exchanges between Art and Religion 5 Structure of the Book1 Antinomies of Art and Theology. Marie-Alain Couturier and the Contradictions of Modern Sacred CultureIntroduction: Couturierâ€™s Conceptual Zig Zags Prelude. Paris, 1953. The Contradictoires Text Sacred Art between the Mechanical and Natural Attitudes 1 Le Saulchoir/Paris, 1918â€“1930. Catholic Endgame, or the Narrative of Decline 1.1 â€œDown with the Republic, Long Live the King!â€: Couturierâ€™s Romantic Anti-Capitalism and the Return to Order (Paris, 1919â€“1925) 1.2 Couturierâ€™s Neo-Thomist Aesthetics (Le Saulchoir, 1925â€“1930) 2 Rome/Paris, 1930â€“1940. The Gospels and Fraternal Catholic Modernism 2.1 The Human Truth of the Gospel (Rome, 1930â€“1932) 2.2 The Art of the Incarnation (Paris, 1935â€“1937) 3 1940â€“1953. the Secular Prophet. Couturier on Modern Sacred Architecture 3.1 The Politics of French Artistic Modernity 3.2 Artistic Abstraction and Catholic Humanism 3.3 Conflicted Temporalities of Aesthetic Categories in Couturierâ€™s Late Writings 3.4 Modesty: a Critical Counter-Concept to Modernity 3.5 On the Autonomy of Modern Art and Artists 3.6 On the Uses and Abuses of Poverty in the Modern Era2 Between Mysticism and Industry: the Bauhaus Diaspora, the Benedictines and the Ambiguities of Architectural SymbolismIntroduction: Mechanics, Symbols and History 1 Navigating the Divide. Breuer and the Benedictines on Architectural Symbolism 1.1 Breuerâ€™s Pre-Modern Imaginary 1.2 Breuerâ€™s Architectural Symbolism: Tension-Structures 1.3 Liturgy and Labour 1.4 Benedictine Symbolism, Form, and Function 2 Form and Symbolism: The Language of Religious Experience 2.1 1959: A Divided Committee 2.2 Albers on Form and Tradition 2.3 Albers: Spirituality Contra Science 2.4 The Public Dimension of SymbolsCoda. Unpacking the Semantics of the â€œSacredâ€ in Modern Architecture3 Catholic Metaphorology. Dominique de Menil and the Role of Conversion in Aesthetic EducationIntroduction 1 Connecting the Dots Between Paris and Houston 217 1.1 Dominique de Menilâ€™s Rothko Chapel Speech, 1971 1.2 An Intellectual Apprenticeship: Typologies of Engagement 1.3 Conceptual Ramifications: from Religion to Aesthetics 2 Catholicisme Ondoyant 2.1 The Intellectual Context of Congarâ€™s Montmartre Lectures in 1936 2.2 A Source of Congarâ€™s Pluralism: Thomas Cajetan on the Image 2.3 Organic and Embodied Metaphors 2.4 The Social Dimension of Catholicism: Yves Congar on Unbelief in 1930s France 3 Putting Conversion to Work After World War II 3.1 Art Education and Social Justice in the 1960s 3.2