In the fourteenth century, the loss of belief in the integral connection between God and Creation—or in philosophic terms, transcendent reality and material reality The collapse of religious unity and religious authority in the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century The eighteenth-century Enlightenment, which displaced the Christian religion with the cult of Reason, privatized religious life, and inaugurated the age of democracy The Industrial Revolution (ca. 1760–1840) and the growth of capitalism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries The Sexual Revolution (1960–present)
