Centennial Rumination on Max Weber's the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of CapitalismUniversal-Publishers, 13. märts 2006 - 272 pages In 1904-1905 Max Weber published the sociological classic "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism." In this book Weber argues that religion, specifically "ascetic Protestantism" provided the essential social and cultural infrastructure that led to modern capitalism. Weber's suggests that Protestantism has "an affinity for capitalism." Indeed, something within Protestantism-by accident or design-creates the necessary preconditions that lead to the flowering of a just, free, and prosperous society. At the same time, Weber wonders if the economic backwardness of certain societies and regions of the world are somehow related to their religious affiliation. Weber's century old thesis challenges the erroneous core assumptions of many secular humanists, postmoderns, Roman Catholic traditionalists, and Islamists. In view of the threat of the War on Terror, and in the face of the inadequate response of secularist and post-modern intellectuals, it is vital that we understand and appreciate the profound paradigm shift that occurred during the sixteenth and seventeenth century that led to the unfolding of modern capitalism. Despite a plethora of critics Max Weber's one-hundred year old thesis still stands. |
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... Evangelical Lutheran Conference and Ministerium. The ELCM is a centerist Lutheran denomination [see www.elcm.org]. Pastor Mark is currently writing the soon to be published 250th Anniversary History of St. Paul's Lutheran Church of ...
... Evangelical ghetto. Christian scholars tend to read the great ones: i.e., James Orr (1844-1913); J. Gresham 55 Based on real world anthropology, i.e., that fallen man is inherently evil, Calvinists tended to argue that powers needed to ...
... evangelicals must not separate and flee from them, but—with God's help—“beat them!”60 Max Weber, unlike many of today's mainstream secular sociologists and economists, takes the role of religion—all religions—seriously.61 As a result ...
... Evangelical Christian scholarship and theology to the secularly dominated disciplines of history, economics, and sociology. These questions will also be explored in two areas; first, on the domestic front, and second in the ...
... Evangelical faith in our time. Next, two important books by Paul Althaus (1888-1966), The Theology of Martin Luther (1963, 1966) and The Ethics of Martin Luther (1965, 1972) provide important and essential reading. One of the problems ...
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Proof of Case Confirmatio or Probatio | 140 |
Refutation of Opposing Arguments Confutatio | 165 |
Conclusion Peroratio | 187 |
Who is Max Weber? | 199 |
Bibliography | 243 |