Synodal space

From 2 to 5 October 2024, the study days on liturgical space were held at the Pontifical Athenaeum Sant'Anselmo in Rome, with the intervention and participation of Professor Bert Daelemans of the Faculty of Theology. Professor Daelemans is visiting Professor at the KU Leuven in Belgium during the first four months of this academic year.

This conference included a long meeting with Monsignor Viola, Secretary of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, to reflect on the synodality of sacred architecture and to propose liturgical projects in Roman churches such as Santa Maria in Traspontina. This ecumenical meeting brought together theologians, liturgists and architects from the best European universities.

Our Faculty of Theology is one of the few to offer a seminar for interdisciplinary reflection on liturgical space as a transversal mystagogical place for ecclesiology, sacramental theology and anthropology.

Professor Bert Daelemans is an Architect and PhD in Theology, Department of Dogmatic and Fundamental Theology and an internationally recognised expert on Contemporary Religious Architecture and mystagogical space. His works include La fuerza de lo débil (SalTerrae 2022) and Spiritus Loci. A Theological Method for Contemporary Church Architecture (Brill 2015).

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