Calvinist Republicanism and its Historical Roots
- 1 March 1939
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Church History
- Vol. 8 (1) , 30-42
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3159864
Abstract
Recent research on the rôle played by Calvinism in the political and economic development of modern Europe has some resemblance to the mythical fight against the Lernaean hydra. For decades historians have tried to cut off the heads of this theory, and have indeed proved that at many points in modern history Calvinist religion was practised without any of the political and economic consequences which are said to be closely connected with the Calvinist attitude towards life. Yet historians who have studied the growth of the modern world, have ascertained again and again that Calvinist countries or circles reacted in a way different from that of Catholics and Lutherans. Whenever one head of the theory had been cut, two other heads grew at once. What is the reason for this strange failure?Keywords
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