The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Capitalism irrationally imposes on us a deep sense that we need more than what is necessary to live on because we need more than what will allow us to live well today. Living well today, capitalism says, is having more than you need for today. Capitalism demands that we work hard to create something extra (which we call “capital”).
Andrew Root • The Church After Innovation
A certain ‘pathos’ does emerge from these stories, which suggests something amiss in parish life. The problem can be traced back to the decline of the role of the landed elite, which began as early as the 1500s. In The Agrarian Problem in the 16th Century (1912), R.H. Tawney argued that Tudor landowners changed the terms of paternalistic governance... See more