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    Notre Dame reminds us how the Bible stories have shaped our civilisation | John Barton

    Great cathedrals and the gospels stand for so much more than religion – evoking human endurance and a quest for beauty
    by John Barton Apr 21, 2019 4 minutes
    Inside Notre Dame cathedral after the fire. Photograph: Bastien Louvet/Sipa/Rex/Shutterstock

    Cathedrals belong to everyone. In vox pop interviews in secular France after the Notre Dame fire we heard so often: “I’m an atheist, but Notre Dame is part of me.” Reactions in Britain would be the same: a great cathedral stands for so much more than religion, narrowly conceived. It represents human skill, the quest for beauty and the continuity of communities over a length of time far greater than even many lifetimes. Attendance at cathedral services now bucks the national downward trend in the Church of England, but does not necessarily signal a widespread conversion to Christianity.

    At Easter, it seems natural to commentators to

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