While restraint for health and dietary programs is on the rise, fasting for religious motives has declined greatly in Western society. Equally, compared to the lavish festal celebrations of the past, the luxurious excess of consumption has also waned in its extravagance.

A study of the phenomenon of Martin Luther, and his effects on church and society, which leads to recognising that issues which existed in 1517 are endemic to Christianity in every century.