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During the sixteenth century the Renaissance had rediscovered the fruitfulness of antiquity, from which humanity’s resilience and responsibility were reshaped. Following the Renaissance, the Protestant Reformation began. Protestantism was both a belief system and a strategy for liberation from extortion and oppression, an exodus comparable to that of Moses and the Hebrews who had fled from the fleshpots of Egypt.
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Wiersma, J. (2011). Protestant Economic Principles and Practices. In: Bouckaert, L., Zsolnai, L. (eds) Handbook of Spirituality and Business. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230321458_16
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