The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Author: Max Weber
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2012-04-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 0486122379

Author's best-known and most controversial study relates the rise of a capitalist economy to the Puritan belief that hard work and good deeds were outward signs of faith and salvation.

The Pilgrim Church

The Pilgrim Church
Author: E.H. Broadbent
Publisher: Ravenio Books
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2018-04-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

The History of the Church or company of those who by faith have received Christ and become His followers, is still in the making, not yet complete. On this account and because of its immense extent, although it is of supreme importance, parts only of it can be written and from time to time. First one, then another, must relate what he has seen or has learned from trustworthy records, and this must be taken up and added to as stage after stage of the long pilgrimage is traversed. The following pages are a contribution to the unfolding story.

The Old Testament Since the Reformation

The Old Testament Since the Reformation
Author: Emil Gottlieb Heinrich Kraeling
Publisher: James Clarke Company
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003-02
Genre: Bible
ISBN: 9780227170939

The Old Testament raises far-reaching issues for the Christian faith. In his valuable historical study Kraeling surveys Christian attitudes to the Old Testament since the Reformation. He offers with scholarly precision and thoroughness an overview of the arguments and attitudes revealed in the massive debates on the Old Testament which have wracked Christendom during the last five centuries. He shows the reactions of Christian scholars to the Old Testament and how these affected the attitude of the Church. This book offers the general reader as well as the Bible student an understanding of the role of the Old Testament in the life of the Church and in Biblical scholarship. It also reveals the profound impact of the Old Testament on the understanding of the New.

The Conflict Between Paganism and Christianity in the Fourth Century

The Conflict Between Paganism and Christianity in the Fourth Century
Author: Arnaldo Momigliano
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2021-09-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781013532603

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General Economic History

General Economic History
Author: Max Weber
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2012-07-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0486147762

DIVStarting with descriptions and analyses of the agrarian systems, the famed economist explores manorial system, guilds, and early capitalism, organization of industry and mining, development of commerce, the transporting of goods, and more. /div

The Medieval World

The Medieval World
Author: Peter Linehan
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 770
Release: 2003
Genre: Civilization
ISBN: 9780415302340

This groundbreaking collection brings the Middle Ages to life and conveys the distinctiveness of this diverse, constantly changing period. Thirty-eight scholars bring together one medieval world from many disparate worlds, from Connacht to Constantinople and from Tynemouth to Timbuktu. This extraordinary set of reconstructions presents the reader with a vivid re-drawing of the medieval past, offering fresh appraisals of the evidence and modern historical writing. Chapters are thematically linked in four sections: identities beliefs, social values and symbolic order power and power-structures elites, organizations and groups. Packed full of original scholarship, The Medieval World is essential reading for anyone studying medieval history.