Lutheranism is the body of doctrines that developed out of Martin Luther’s writing and teaching during the Protestant Reformation. Although Lutheranism developed at the same time as Calvinism, Lutheranism rejects predestination and historically opposed Calvinism’s influence.
Lutheranism Quotes in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
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Part 2, Section 1
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The consequence of this systematization of the ethical conduct of life, which was enforced by Calvinism (unlike Lutheranism), is the permeation of the whole of existence by Christianity.
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Lutheranism, as a result of its doctrine of grace, simply failed to provide the psychological drive to be systematic in the conduct of life, and thus to enforce the rationalization of life.
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Part 1, Section 3: Luther’s Conception of the Calling
Weber states that both Lutheranism and Catholicism ardently oppose Calvinism, in part because it created an entirely new relationship “between...
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Part 2, Section 1: The Religious Foundations of Innerworldly Asceticism
While the Lutherans believe that one can emotionally feel God’s presence in their souls, Calvinists distrust such appeals...
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...uniquely effective and logically consistent. Its militarism produces a far more methodical life than the Lutheranism, which holds that salvation can be won back through repentance, and thus Lutherans have less...
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Lutheranism appears far less constrained by the ascetic impulse, even within its own practice of piety....
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...when Pietism does not lapse into monasticism and does not abandon the concept of predestination—as Lutheran Pietism did—Weber argues that it produces an even more serious and methodical person. Pietists of...
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