We would never condemn a functional church.
Because churches with massive overhead invested in things like church buildings, denominational infrastructures, functional church organizational models (think: a baptized version of General Motors' organizational structure, complete with a board of directors, departments, departmental committees, etc).
"The parish did not have the money to make the repairs to keep the church functional".
Muhly's prolific output runs counter to the Beethoven Paradigm, and instead embraces an earlier model: the era of Bach and Vivaldi, in which composers were considered not truth-seekers but employees, writing a continuous stream of functional music for church services and royal occasions.
Answer by Michael O. Church, functional programmer and machine learning engineer.
As the level of new building reduced from the 1970s there was a move to functional and unambitious new churches, but in the 1980s there was a move back to more striking and original designs.
In harmonizing these two requirements, synagogue architects have experimented with layouts and necessarily veered toward modernistic or functional designs rather than traditional church styles.
This was demonstrated by Christoph Büchel's well-known installation at the 2015 Venice biennale, in which he opened a fully functional mosque in a disused church.
"The idea that you have authority because you occupy an office is not very functional in the history of the American church," said David O'Brien, the Loyola professor of Roman Catholic studies at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass.
The functional programming paradigm stretches back to Alonzo Church's (1936) lambda calculus, continuing with programming languages such as PCF and LISP.
