| Period |
Time |
Dominant Question(s) |
Significance |
| Christian Antiquity |
Ascension to 1650
(Old World) |
What has God said? |
Locus of
authority is extrinsic |
| Modernity |
1650-1914
(Old World)
1789-1968 (New World) |
Has God said? |
Locus of
authority is intrinsic (via rationalism, empiricism or
romanticism) |
| Post/Late/Liquid
Modernity |
1914-Present (Old World)
1968-Present (New World) |
Who cares, who is asking,
and what do they want? |
Authority,
what's that? |
