Biographical Evidence on Predestination, Covenant, and Special Providence

Greyerz, Kaspar von

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“…Впоследствии обращение к зрительным образам и способностям человеческой фантазии для постижения абстрактных понятий и явлений («per visibilia invisibilia») стало одним из методов игнатианских практик самосовершенствования и педагогики 36 , влияние которых испытали многие представители не только церковной, но и светской элиты Нового времени. Формирование навыка постоянного самоанализа получило свое выражение в том числе в популярности среди образованных кругов литературного жанра индивидуальной исповеди и в массовом распространении практики дневниковых записей не только в католических, но и в протестантских обществах 37 .…”

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The Catholic Practice of “Examining Conscience”: Theoretical and Religious-Cultural Aspects

Korzo¹

2020

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The Catholic Practice of “Examining Conscience”: Theoretical and Religious-Cultural Aspects

Korzo¹

2020

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“…It also fostered an obsessive scrutiny of tangible and intangible signs that might provide assurance that one numbered among the elect -from a devastating personal disaster like the death of a friend or relative to a minor mishap like the discovery of a spider in a porridge bowl. 46 To observe that this brand of introspective providentialism may have exerted a moderating influence on the socalled ' witchcraze ' is in no sense to see it as an agent of desacralization : by deflecting attention away from external scapegoats towards the private sins that had exposed one to the wrath of the Almighty, it merely relocated the operations of the supernatural inside the soul. 47 For fervent Protestants, moreover, hearing or reading the Word of God itself could be a near sacramental and mystical experience.…”

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The Reformation and ‘The Disenchantment of the World’ Reassessed

Walsham

2008

Hist. J.

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A B S T R A C T. This essay is a critical historiographical overview of the ongoing debate about the role of the Protestant Reformation in the process of 'the disenchantment of the world '. It considers the development of this thesis in the work of Max Weber and subsequent scholars, its links with wider claims about the origins of modernity, and the challenges to this influential paradigm that have emerged in the last twenty-five years. Setting the literature on England within its wider European context, it explores the links between Protestantism and the transformation of assumptions about the sacred and the supernatural, and places renewed emphasis on the equivocal and ambiguous legacy left by the upheavals of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Attention is also paid to the ways in which the Reformation converged with other intellectual, cultural, political, and social developments which cumulatively brought about subtle, but decisive, transformations in individual and collective mentalities. It is suggested that thinking in terms of cycles of desacralization and resacralization may help to counteract the potential distortions of a narrative that emphasizes a linear path of development.The tendency to herald the Protestant Reformation as a milestone on the road towards modernity and secularization, a landmark in the narrative of progress that traces the eventual triumph of rationalism over ' superstition ' in the age of the Enlightenment, has deep roots in Western European and Anglo-American culture and scholarship and continues to exert considerable influence. In particular, the idea that the religious revolution launched by Luther, Calvin, and other reformers played a critical role in eliminating assumptions about the intervention of magical and supernatural forces in the world has proved remarkably resilient. If it has stimulated and shaped many seminal contributions to the historiography of the early modern period over the last century, it has also served, in some ways, to constrain and distort our understanding of this era. This review offers a series of critical reflections and observations on the evolution and fortunes of this thesis against the backdrop of a body of recent research which has seriously complicated, challenged, and undercut it. Focusing especially on England, but set within a wider Continental context, its aim is to review the current state of the debate and to provide an interim report on

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Weber's Protestant-Ethic Thesis, the Critics, and Adam Smith

Etzrodt¹

2008

Max Weber Studies

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Biographical Evidence on Predestination, Covenant, and Special Providence

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The Catholic Practice of “Examining Conscience”: Theoretical and Religious-Cultural Aspects

The Catholic Practice of “Examining Conscience”: Theoretical and Religious-Cultural Aspects

The Reformation and ‘The Disenchantment of the World’ Reassessed

Weber's Protestant-Ethic Thesis, the Critics, and Adam Smith

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