Salvation and Economic Ethics in Troeltsch and Weber: The Puritan Case
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This work makes an analysis of the influence that the different Christian theological doctrines (Catholicism, Lutheranism and Calvinism) have on economic ethics and entrepreneurship, as a historically important factor for the development of our societies. The analysis is based on the joint reading of two works (The Social Doctrine of Christian Churches, 1912; and The Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism, 1905) by two authors (Ernst Troeltsch and Max Weber) who treat these issues from different points of view: theology, on the Troeltsch side, and the economics and sociology of religion, by Weber. The resulting analytical scheme will be applied to the particular case of the English Puritans, both in the British Isles, in the period before the end of Cromwell's dictatorship, and in New England.
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