Modern Age, September 22nd, 2007
We often refer to the latest developments in our times as "modern," but we tend to forget that the modern age actually began five hundred years ago--back in the 1500's with the Renaissance, the Reformation, the birth of modern science, the age of exploration, and the first stirrings of political change that led to the end of feudalism and the rise of the modern state. We also tend to forget that the oldest continuing institution of Western civilization, the Roman Catholic Church, was the principal opponent of many of these changes and formulated strategies to counter some of these movements ...
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