Multiple Choice
As science has pushed back the boundaries of religious explanation, and as democracy has assumed authority in the state through the rule of law, pushing Church authority further into the background, sociologists have hypothesized a thesis for the Church's waning influence. Which of the following terms best frames this theoretical concept?
A) reformation thesis
B) atheism thesis
C) scientific thesis
D) secularization thesis
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