Introduction to Christianity

Text book: Introduction to Christianity (4th edition) by Weaver and Brakke

A. One of the most important challenges to Western Christianity has come in the form of the ideas and assumptions we know as modernity. These have had a particularly strong impact on the place of religion in the United States of America. Please define modernity and show how it has both challenged and transformed key Christian institutions in the United States..
To answer Question B see the following:
Weaver: Chapters 7-8
Lecture Notes: Wk. 05W