The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

Author: Max Weber

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-04-19

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0486122379

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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

Published: 2018-04-07

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13:

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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

Published: 2003-02

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780227170939

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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

Published: 2021-09-09

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9781013532603

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General Economic History

General Economic History

Author: Max Weber

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-07-12

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 0486147762

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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

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 770

ISBN-13: 9780415302340

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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.