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Sacraments and modernity

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In The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Weber notes that the "Baptist denominations along with the predestinationists, especially the strict Calvinists, carried out the most radical devaluation of all sacraments as means to salvation, and thus accomplished the religious rationalization of the world in its most extreme form." Again shifts in sacramental theology are strongly implicated in the rise of modernity.

posted by Peter J. Leithart on Wednesday, February 01, 2006 at 06:48 AM

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