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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism1 is Max Weber’s best-known work, as well as the most argumentative and controversial study concerning the relationship between religion and society. Weber’s argument about the relationship between Reformation Protestantism, Calvinism, and laissez-faire capitalism in particular has been supplemented and supported in the theological writings of Ernst Troeltsch and R. H. Tawney.2 Weber’s assumption combining Calvinism with the spirit of capitalism has prompted lively debates. Both affirmation and objections to Weber’s work have been emphatic and problematic.3
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Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, trans. Talcott Parsons (Mineola, NY: Dover, 2003), 182.
Ernst Troeltsch, The Social Teachings of the Christian Churches, 2 vols., tr. Olive Wyon (Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1992)
R. H. Tawney, Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1952).
Max Weber, Die protestantische Ethik IL Kritiken und Antikritiken, ed. Johannes Winckelmann (Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 1978).
Max Weber, Die protestantische Ethik I, Eine Aufsatzsammlung, ed. Johannes Winckelmann (Hamburg: Gütersloher Verlag, 1991), 32.
Reinhard Bendix, Max Weber: An Intellectual Portrait (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977), 57.
Herbert Lüthy, Le passé présent: Combats d’idées de Calvin à Rousseau (Monaco: Editions du Rocher, 1965), 42.
Max Weber, The Methodology of the Social Sciences (Glencoe, IL: Free Press, 1949), 54.
Franz J. Hinkelammert, The Ideological Weapons of Death: A Theological Critique of Capitalism (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1981), 66–67.
“Science as a Vocation,” in H. H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills, eds., From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology (New York: Oxford University Press, 1974), 147.
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Chung, P.S. (2009). Afterword: Max Weber’s View of Reformation and Capitalism. In: The Spirit of God Transforming Life. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230103467_8
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