Protestant Project: Five Hundred Years Later

... Temple. The question arises: How can an honest Christian engage in entrepreneurship? The Protestants came up with an answer. Liberalism, capitalism and Protestantism all became elements of a single puzzle that went by the name of “rationalism.” Of ... ... formation of national European governments. More importantly, however, Protestantism reconciled Christianity with business, religious belief with capitalism. It proved to the everyday European that profit and wealth were not sins; quite the opposite,...