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

Ernst Troeltsch, "Protestantism and Progress: A Historical Study of the Relation of Protestantism to the Modern World"
English | ISBN: 1412851726 | 2013 | 146 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Ernst Troeltsch focuses his Protestantism and Progress on two main areas. First, he centers on the intellectual and religious situation, from which the significance and the possibilities of development possessed by Christianity might be deduced. This leads to an engaging historical investigation regarding the spirit of the modern world. Troeltsch argues that the modern world can only be understood in the light of its relation to earlier epochs of Christian civilization in Europe. He notes that for anyone who holds the opinion that in spite of all the significance that Catholicism retains, the living possibilities of development and progress are to be found on Protestant soil, the question regarding the relation of Protestantism to modern civilization becomes of central importance.