Protestantism and Progress: A Historical Study of the Relation of Protestantism to the Modern World

By Ernst Troeltsch

Book Overview

Troeltsch seeks to determine how much the Modern Spirit of the early twentieth century actually owed to Protestantism. Troeltsch then proceeds to a comparison between the essential spirit of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1579102263
• ISBN13: 9781579102265
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.6" x 0.5" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

A key book

This book deals a fundamental debate: how deeply is protestantism (and the "Reformation spirit", as a whole) linked to the modernity? After reading this book no doubts rest that the Reformation is the shaping and defining factor of the Modern Era and it is in the genesis of the world of today. Thus, this book must be a "vade-mecum" for students, historians, social scientists and all those interested in understanding the ways the modernity was built up.