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The Christianization of Interest1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

Conrad Henry Moehlman
Conrad Henry Moehlman
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Colgate-Rochester Divinity School
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Extract

In his economic history of the Schwarzwald, published in 1891, Eberhard Gothein called attention to the connection between Calvinism and modern capitalism.

Thirteen years later, in a series of brilliant essays, Max Weber insisted that Calvinism and capitalism were intimately related and alluded to such Calvinistic virtues as secular asceticism, thrift, and predestination as significant elements in the situation.2

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Research Article
Information
Church History , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , March 1934 , pp. 3 - 15
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of Church History 1934

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9 Exodus 22:25, cf. Deut. 15:7ff., Ezekiel 18:7, Psalm 15:5.

10 Luke 6:35, other manuscripts have “no man”—”lend, despairing of no man.” The Revised Version has “lend, never despairing.”

11 The 20th canon of the Council of Elvira. the 12th canon of the Council of Arles, and the 17th canon of the Council of Nicaea contain declarations against usury, cf. Hefele, , History of Christian Councils,I, pp. 145, 190, 424, 476Google Scholar

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23 Bullinger, Decades, II, pp. 40–44. Professor J. T. McNeili of the University of Chicago was good enough to remind me of this.

24 K. Holl, op. cit., III, pp. 387f.

25 Ibid., III, pp. 389ff.

26 Ibid., III, p. 398, note 5.

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