While the religious or the ecclesiastical Christian has increasingly become incapable of speaking about damnation, the radical Christian, who has been willing to confront the totally alien form of God which has been manifest in our time, has known the horror of Satan and Hell, and can all too readily speak the language of guilt and damnation. (religion-online.org)
Thus, too, Christendom has known the most terrible guilt in history, and as a religious Christianity has progressively and ever more fully reversed the movement of the Incarnation, the Christian God has increasingly become alien and abstract, until in our own time he has only been present and real in actual experience in a totally alien form, and the whole body of Western humanity has been initiated into a radical and total state of guilt. (religion-online.org)
The building was designed by Pritzker Prize winner Jean Nouvel, who says he took inspiration for the startlingly alien form from the qubba, one of Islamic architecture's signature forms, and the interwoven palm fronds native to the Arabian Peninsula. (travelandleisure.com)