Talk:Christian architecture
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[edit] The role of Christian humanism?
Some of the elements of Gothic architecture had a long history that pre-dates Christian humanism, particularly that of Erasmus. Humanism seems to have been a reaction against some of the constraints of church theology and philosophy that were dominant as these cathedrals were going up, and it's hard to see how equality and commonality were playing out in the architecture. Medieval theology tended to place people in a particular location on the social order, an order often expressed in the stone of the churches; humanism attempted to change that order and met with a great deal of resistance (as one would expect) from church authorities. --KJPurscell 23:12, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
