modernity
Noun
Meaning
Modernness; something modern.
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Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.
The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned.
All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.
The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.
America was born modern; it did not have to achieve modernity, nor did it have modernity thrust upon it.
It is ironic to watch the churches, including large sections of my own religion, surrendering to the spirit of modernity at the very moment when modernity itself is undergoing a kind of spiritual collapse....