Modernism was grounded in the beliefs of the Enilghtenment-a time in western civilization (roughly 1730 - 1800) in which the "great minds" of th West began to disbelieve in the authority of the Judeo-Christian God as the basis of the truthand the law that undergird society and cultre. Replacing traditional beliefs in God, church, and king, they established a new authority centered in man an his rational abilities to create new, "liberated" social and intellectual framework for human endeavor.
