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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... Roman Catholic Church 59 David A. Noebel, Understanding the Times: The Religious Worldviews of Our Day and the Search for Truth (Eugene, Oregon: Harvest House Publishers, 1991), p.7-28. 60Taken from the inspiring Trinity Theological ...
... in the present culture war. 72 Stark examples would include the Roman Catholic American Bishop's letters on economic issues; the social statements on various economic issues from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in American; and the ...
... of the Reformation, and especially Calvinism, had an affinity to capitalism. In certain regions of Europe this “this-worldly asceticism,”156 displaced the static medieval Roman Catholic ... Church, 1530-1580(St. 33.
... Roman Catholic [Hapsburg] Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (1500–1558) at Speyer ... Church-State. Philip Schaff explains: The protest of Speyer was a renewal ... Roman Catholic Church-State establishment used The Index of Forbidden Books. In ...
... Roman Catholic hierarchy enjoyed the benefit of awesome political and ... Church' in Germany.”180 Weber writes, “the old Protestantism of Luther ... Church (Oxford University Press, 1957, 1989), p.1135. 179Weber, p.lxxvii. 180Ibid., p ...
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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 |