Les ressources de l'esprit critique protestant

Le protestantisme n'a cessé de produire un double mouvement critique, interne au christianisme et à l'Église mais aussi culturel et politique. Que peut-il encore apporter ? The Protestant spirit has never let go of its dual critical momentum, which lives on within Christianity and the Church as well as within the cultural and political spheres. What can it contribute further?

Predestination and the Protestant ethic

This paper shows an equivalence result between the utility functions of secularagents who abide by a moral obligation to accumulate wealth and those of religiousagents who believe that salvation is immutable and preordained by God. Thisresult formalizes Weber's renowned thesis on the connection between the worldlyasceticism of Protestants and the religious premises of Calvinism. Furthermore,ongoing economies are often modeled with preference relations such as "Keeping upwith the Joneses" which are not associated with religion. Our results relate thesesecular economies of today and economies of the past shaped by religious ideas.

The economic effects of the Protestant Reformation: Testing the Weber hypothesis in the German Lands

Many theories, most famously Max Weber s essay on the Protestant ethic, have hypothesizedthat Protestantism should have favored economic development. With their considerablereligious heterogeneity and stability of denominational affiliations until the 19th century, theGerman Lands of the Holy Roman Empire present an ideal testing ground for this hypothesis.Using population figures in a dataset comprising 272 cities in the years 1300 1900, I find no effectsof Protestantism on economic growth. The finding is robust to the inclusion of a varietyof controls, and does not appear to depend on data selection or small sample size. In addition,Protestantism has no effect when interacted with other likely determinants of economic development.I also analyze the endogeneity of religious choice; instrumental variables estimates ofthe effects of Protestantism are similar to the OLS results.

Protestant Churches and the making of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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The passing of Protestant England

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"Adversaria" du ministre protestant de Larroque.

Note autographe "Ce manuscrit est un recueil original des lectures de feu M. de Larroque un des plus habiles ministres protestans du 17e siecle, sur plusieurs matieres ecclesiastiques, escrit de sa propre main. C'est Mr. son fils, qui ne luy cede en rien pour la doctrine, et qui a eu le bonheur d'embrasser la religion catholique encore jeune, qui m'en fit present le 8 novembre 1704. Fr. Leonard A. d. M. priez Dieu pour moy" (2)