Much of today's culture has given up confidence in many of the long-standing principles that once stood behind the creation of art, architecture, and other products of culture. These principles include the ability to establish true precepts, the ability to judge goodness, and the ability to create objective beauty. All of these are now commonly undercut by doubt, uncertainty, or outright opposition, so that cultural products now posit questions rather than truth, convey doubt rather than goodness, and cater to a sense of pleasure rather than beauty. In opposition to this allegedly necessary quicksand is a purposeful movement of practitioners asserting the reality of solid ground. They argue that this solid ground is found in the wisest principles of the past, and that the best forward route in many disciplines is the embracing of this wisdom. The contest between these practitioners and those of the current mainstream is not stylistic, but presuppositional. What this thesis intends to examine is the role that the Christian Church, and more specifically the Protestant Church, plays in this contest. Alasdair MacIntyre, in After Virtue, portrayed this contest, in the realm of moral philosophy, as a choice between Nietzsche and Aristotle. He shows that Nietzsche's views were both the culmination and the necessary abandonment of the Enlightenment project of replacing tradition with self-grounding truth and meaning based solely on human reason. Nietzsche ripped the mask off of Enlightenment morality by revealing that all moral utterance based on nothing higher than human rationality is only the concealed utterance of individual will. The relativism in all realms, including the arts, which followed Nietzsche, has held sway over the last century, with disastrous results. MacIntyre argues that the only other possible choice is a return to a pre-Enlightenment intellectual tradition, originated by Aristotle, and developed by others, such as Thomas Aquinas. The general cultural trend toward relativism and away from tradition has led to a loss of once-held values. Simultaneously, the Protestant Church, if not the whole Church Catholic, has become inattentive to many of its own inherited values. What makes this latter loss more troubling is that these values are not simply based on a tradition, but rather are part of a holistic understanding of the core of the Christian faith. Forced in the last century to seriously question its every bedrock precept, the Church has practiced the strategy of holding tight to its most central core beliefs, while allowing other important beliefs to be nearly lost or forgotten, or at least held so loosely that they are rarely seen by Christians as having immediate relevance in the actual activities of the Church. One thing that is interesting to note is that the same beliefs (to be noted below) that the Church has nearly let slip away is coincident with those enumerated by MacIntyre and others as being central to a reconnection to lost traditions: Aquinas-Aristotelianism for MacIntyre, Classicism for a host of artists and architects, and traditional urbanism for New Urbanists. If the Church can reacquaint itself with its lost values, it can simultaneously restore both its own internal culture, and aid in the restoration of art, architecture and other cultural activities inside and outside of the Church. This is important because the interests of the Church extend beyond the walls of the church building. The Church has a mandate to participate in the mending of culture, which will continue until the full arrival of the New City. This thesis will address the loss within the Protestant Church of a deep understanding of the connection between beliefs and cultural products, and attempt to demonstrate how the reacquisition of this understanding can bring a restoration to both art and architecture in general and within the Church itself. It will begin by taking one of these beliefs, the importance and value assigned to community, and examining its relationship to urban design, in order to provide an example of the intimate link between a belief and created form. Following this will be a consideration of several other beliefs, the full recovery of which are imperative to the Church and which can become the basis for the Church's participation in the development of art and architecture. The subjects of these beliefs are items highly valued by the Church, and may be termed as: mandates for cultural creation, authority, tradition, sign and symbol, the sacred, beauty, and narrative. After a reflection on these values, there will be a brief account of the traditions of Protestant church design, followed by a description of a new design adhering to the values which will be laid out.