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Why is the Notre Dame Cathedral a symbol of the Church before the Great Schism?
The construction was very costly and reflects the great wealth of the Church.
The new type of architecture showed the progressive ideals of the Church.
The large sculptures represents the complex but permanent ideals of the Church.
The high towers over the city suggest the dominance of the Church over all people.
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Best choices: 1, 3 and 4.
- 1 (costly construction → wealth): True. Grand cathedrals required huge resources and visibly expressed the Church’s wealth and institutional power.
- 3 (large sculptures → permanent ideals): True. Portals and statuary taught biblical stories and Church doctrine to an illiterate population and symbolized the Church’s enduring moral order.
- 4 (tall towers → dominance): True. The cathedral’s size and dominance of the skyline proclaimed the Church’s central social and political role in medieval life.
Why not 2? Gothic architecture was technically innovative and aimed to express theological ideas (light, verticality, the heavenly realm), but calling it a sign of “progressive ideals” is misleading. It reflected religious theology and institutional ambition more than a modern notion of social progress.
(If helpful: Notre‑Dame de Paris began in the 12th century, so it typifies the High Middle Ages’ Latin Church rather than the earlier 1054 East–West Schism period.)
- 1 (costly construction → wealth): True. Grand cathedrals required huge resources and visibly expressed the Church’s wealth and institutional power.
- 3 (large sculptures → permanent ideals): True. Portals and statuary taught biblical stories and Church doctrine to an illiterate population and symbolized the Church’s enduring moral order.
- 4 (tall towers → dominance): True. The cathedral’s size and dominance of the skyline proclaimed the Church’s central social and political role in medieval life.
Why not 2? Gothic architecture was technically innovative and aimed to express theological ideas (light, verticality, the heavenly realm), but calling it a sign of “progressive ideals” is misleading. It reflected religious theology and institutional ambition more than a modern notion of social progress.
(If helpful: Notre‑Dame de Paris began in the 12th century, so it typifies the High Middle Ages’ Latin Church rather than the earlier 1054 East–West Schism period.)
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