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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... Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, 1992 Master of Sacred Theology, Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, 2005 Doctor of Philosophy, Trinity Theological Seminary, 2005 Dissertation Committee Chairman: The Rev. Dr. David Paul ...
... Theology degree [S.T.M] (2005) from the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Gettysburg. Pastor Mark's soon to be published book entitled THE END: Textual Criticism and Apocalyptic Speculation in Johann Albrecht Bengel (1687-1752) is based ...
... theology, comparative religion and philosophy. Weber was truly a remarkable interdisciplinary thinker and writer ... theologian Michael Novak correctly argues that Catholics and Jews should be grateful for the American constitutional ...
... 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 international arena. On the domestic front, the ...
... theology, comparative religion, and philosophy. Weber was truly a remarkable interdisciplinary thinker and writer. Indeed, to this day, within the disciplines of sociology, sociology of religion, economics, and history it is difficult ...
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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 |