Dr. Heinrich Emil Brunner (1889-1966), a Swiss Reformed theologian who advocated neo-orthodoxy theology, published his Gifford Lectures in Christianity and Civilisation (Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, NY, 1948 &1949). Chapter II in Brunner’s first lecture series (The Foundations) is titled: …
Christianity and Civilization (Lecture II (1947): Being or Reality)Read More
The Gifford Lectures were established in 1887 through the will of Lord Adam Gifford for the purpose of promoting natural theology. The lectures are given at several Scottish universities and are a high honor for the recipients. Of the over 170 Gifford lecturers, many are renown theologians and …
Christianity and Civilization – Lecture I (1947): Christian CivilizationRead More
In my previous blog on Weber’s critics, I wrote about Ernst Troeltsch’s support for and Hector Monteith Robertson’s critique of Weber’s Protestant Ethic thesis. These responses were written within a few decades after Weber’s 1904–6 Protestant Ethic publications. Robert M. Mitchell published a much …
In my four-blog Protestant Ethics series, I explained Max Weber’s thesis. Soon after he published his three articles between 1904-6, scholars started publishing their critiques. Dr. Robert W. Green (1921-2007), professor emeritus of European History at Pennsylvania State University, edited …
In my third blog on the Protestant Ethic, I discussed English Puritanism founded upon John Calvin’s vocational theology. Weber focuses on the writings of Richard Baxter (1615-1691), an English church leader and Puritan theologian, who advocated combining industrious work and asceticism. The result …
