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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... theologian, apologist, and comparative religions scholar. Pastor Mark—born in Minneapolis, and baptized in Hazel Run, Minnesota— has lived most of his life on the East Coast in Maryland, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and ...
... theologian, apologist, and comparative religions scholar. Pastor Mark—born in Minneapolis, and baptized in Hazel Run, Minnesota— has lived most of his life on the East Coast in Maryland, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and ...
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... theologian Michael Novak correctly argues that Catholics and Jews should be grateful for the American constitutional republic and culture established by the Calvinist inspired Founding Fathers. Novak understands and appreciates the ...
... theologian Michael Novak correctly argues that Catholics and Jews should be grateful for the American constitutional republic and culture established by the Calvinist inspired Founding Fathers. Novak understands and appreciates the ...
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... theologian Franz August Otto Pieper (1852-1931). Pieper's three volume Christian Dogmatics (1917, 1920, 1920 in German, 1950, 1951, and 1953 in English) is a repristination of classic seventeenth and eighteenth century orthodox Lutheran ...
... theologian Franz August Otto Pieper (1852-1931). Pieper's three volume Christian Dogmatics (1917, 1920, 1920 in German, 1950, 1951, and 1953 in English) is a repristination of classic seventeenth and eighteenth century orthodox Lutheran ...
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... theologian and a reformer, was a man of the Middle Ages. His economic views were extremely traditional and backward. Max Weber and Ernst Troeltsch are certainly correct when they criticize Luther—and look to John Calvin and his later ...
... theologian and a reformer, was a man of the Middle Ages. His economic views were extremely traditional and backward. Max Weber and Ernst Troeltsch are certainly correct when they criticize Luther—and look to John Calvin and his later ...
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... theologians in Germany who recognized the total incompatibility of Christianity and Nazi ideology. From the very beginning Sasse was a courageous and determined orthodox Lutheran foe of the National Socialists. He played a leading role ...
... theologians in Germany who recognized the total incompatibility of Christianity and Nazi ideology. From the very beginning Sasse was a courageous and determined orthodox Lutheran foe of the National Socialists. He played a leading role ...
Contents
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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 |
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Page 4 - ... fruit thereof is uncertain, and consequently no culture of the earth, no navigation nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea, no commodious building, no instruments of moving and removing such things as require much force, no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time, no arts, no letters, no society, and, which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
Page 66 - These angels and men, thus predestinated and foreordained, are particularly and unchangeably designed ; and their number is so certain and definite, that it cannot be either increased or diminished.
Page 84 - Vanity, they contrived here to set up a fair; a fair wherein should be sold all sorts of vanity, and that it should last all the year long. Therefore at this fair are all such merchandise sold, as houses, lands, trades, places...
Page 113 - For the Methodists in every place grow diligent and frugal: consequently they increase in goods. Hence they proportionately increase in pride. in anger. in the desire of the flesh. the desire of the eyes. and the pride of life.
Page 113 - I fear, wherever riches have increased (exceeding few are the exceptions) the essence of religion, the mind that was in Christ, has decreased in the same proportion. Therefore, I do not see how it is possible, in the nature of things, for any revival of true religion to continue long. For religion must necessarily produce both industry and frugality ; and these cannot but produce riches. But as riches increase, so will pride, anger, and love of the world in all its branches.
Page 67 - Predestination we call the eternal decree of God, by which he has determined in himself. what he would have to become of every individual of mankind. For they are not all created with a similar destiny ; but eternal life is foreordained for some, and eternal damnation for others. Every man, therefore, being created for one or the other of these ends, we say, he is predestinated either to life or to death.
Page 129 - To a foreigner you may lend upon interest, but to your brother you shall not lend upon interest; that the Lord your God may bless you in all that you undertake in the land which you are entering to take possession of it.
Page 114 - We ought not to prevent people from being diligent and frugal; we must exhort all Christians to gain all they can, and to save all they can; that is in effect to grow rich.
Page 84 - ... therefore at this fair are all such merchandise sold, as houses, lands, trades, places, honours, preferments, titles, countries, kingdoms, lusts, pleasures, and delights of all sorts, as whores, bawds, wives, husbands, children, masters, servants, lives, blood, bodies, souls, silver, gold, pearls, precious stones, and what not. And moreover...
Page 130 - It is true that they condemned interest-taking because "it is contrary to Scripture; it is contrary to Aristotle; it is contrary to nature, for it is to live without labor; it is to sell time, which belongs to God, for the advantage of wicked men; it is to rob those who use the money lent, and to whom, since they make it profitable, the profits should belong; it is unjust in itself, for the benefit of the loan to the borrower cannot exceed the...