One outcome of this collapse, the movement from enchantment to disenchantment, was the humanistic focus on civic and political life. The affairs of the town, and not the church, were the most important and in need of reform. With the loss of the sacred, the pursuit of purity and holiness was replaced with political concern and civic action. The secular age thus finds its life in what Taylor calls “the immanent frame,” the plane of solely human affairs after the collapse of the sacred.
