Civilisation, religion and epochal changes of culturesBahovec, Igor (Avtor) epochal changes of cultureMiddle Ages and Modern Agesocial form of religionsymbol and conceptnew era of ChristianityThomas LuckmannRecently, Western civilisation has been undergoing a period of rapid change. Changes are apparent throughout society, culture and religion. In this paper we show how various authors from different fields of science had understood such epochal changes, and that all of them point to the end of the modern era and the birth of something new. We have included contemporary authors and those who have written on this subject in previous decades (Guardini, Sorokin, Ivanov). The findings of Luckmann on the appearance of new forms of social religion also form part of this picture of major change. With respect to responses to major cultural change, we have focussed primarily on the Catholic Church. We are also interested in whether the quest for inspiration in the first millennium of Christianity can encourage a creative response to the crisis in Western culture. We have given some light on the one of several possible expressions of a ,new era‘ of Christianity. 20202024-10-11 07:48:28Neznano163808UDK: 316.74:2ISSN pri članku: 0006-5722DOI: 10.34291/BV2020/04/BahovecCOBISS_ID: 44584707sl