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With churches specifically, move toward simpler architecture signified a move away from excesses and corruption (at least in theory).
In the Reformation especially. I wrote a bit about the aesthetic issues around the anti-ornamentation modernist reaction in Mating Mind
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Sacred ruins dot Scotland. Churches and monasteries destroyed not by war, but by reformers.
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Growing up Catholic I still heard it used as a critique from (esp evangelical) Protestants who thought fancy churches/Mass were out of touch
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I've always wondered whether the Reformation reflected a shift from near to far mode in religious sensibilities
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Protestantism is historically less embodied/tangible/corporate, more abstract. Less heuristic, more absolute.
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