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Dr. Donelson: "Bad taste and bad art in the liturgy don’t condemn a soul to hell, but they most certainly do stunt the ability of the liturgy to lead souls to heaven, and they also warp a person’s ability to understand the underlying reality of the liturgy. If bad art adorns the liturgy, people may think that the reality of the liturgy is humdrum, unimportant, or even worse, a farce."
Dr. Donelson: "Just because a piece of music is a capella with a text from the Gradual does not mean that it is good music! Similarly, not all churches which have a tabernacle at the center are truly beautiful! These are superficial assessments of the value of a work of art viewed through a lens of theology to the exclusion of an honest assessment of the complete reality. The result of this incomplete judgment is that we don’t aim for what is best, settling instead for that which seems adequate or which fulfills a function."
Dr. Donelson: "For the purposes of this paper, this deficiency in distinguishing between greater and lesser degrees of beauty is what is meant by the phrase “bad taste.” It’s true that those who are proficient in these matters may disagree about the goodness of some or other artwork in terms of personal taste and style—for example, someone who prefers the Romanesque to the Gothic—but it is unlikely that those disagreeing would say that the style they don’t prefer lacks any artistic merit; both would agree that there are excellent principles at work and excellent craftsmanship to be found in two well-executed churches of differing styles."