Working, across the Very Long Reformation: Four Models
There are few matters of such moment in any given culture as the relation of deserving and reward. Understand a given culture's system of reward, and you understand that culture's structure and values. How, then, could both Liberalism and left-wing historians have been so wrong, for so lon...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2019]
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Reformation
Year: 2019, Volume: 24, Issue: 2, Pages: 181-194 |
| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy CD Christianity and Culture KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KDD Protestant Church KDE Anglican Church NBK Soteriology |
| Further subjects: | B
Gaskell
B Calvinism B Lutheranism B Weavers B Semi-Pelagianism B Arminianism |
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| Summary: | There are few matters of such moment in any given culture as the relation of deserving and reward. Understand a given culture's system of reward, and you understand that culture's structure and values. How, then, could both Liberalism and left-wing historians have been so wrong, for so long, about the way Reformation theology defined works and merit? In this essay I define the error and then suggest four non-exclusive ways we might understand it. The error is (i) a misunderstanding of Weber's thesis about Protestantism and working; (ii) a failure to understand the relation of Lutheran and Calvinist soteriology in relation to its pre-Reformation counterpart; (iii) a refusal by literary critics to recognize the full range of soteriological positions in the English Reformation; and (iv) the result of nineteenth-century Whig transformation of Reformation culture. Here my focus is Elizabeth's Gaskell's North and South. |
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| ISSN: | 1752-0738 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Reformation
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/13574175.2019.1665284 |