How did increased lay participation in religious life impact monasteries ?
Correct answer: B. it made them seem irrelevant since they separated religious life from worldly life
- A. it made them more valuable sources of information
- B. it made them seem irrelevant since they separated religious life from worldly life
- C. it made them more important since there were few literate lay worshipers
- D. it made them symbols of the Church's progress
Explanation
As laypeople became more involved in religious practice, monasteries could seem less necessary because they represented a separate, withdrawn form of spiritual life. Religious participation was no longer confined to monastic communities.
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