Sentence:  But to say that at a moment in history something is new is not necessarily to say that it is modern ; and for this statement the best evidence comes within the five years following the publication of <WSD>Utopia</WSD> , when Martin Luther elaborates a new perception of the nature of the Divine 's encounter with man . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a book written by Sir Thomas More (1516) describing the perfect society on an imaginary island