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Quotation from Religion and the Rise of Capitalism by R. H. Tawney
“It was a creed which sought, not merely to purify the individual, but to reconstruct Church and State, and to renew society by penetrating every department of life, public as well as private, with the influence of religion.”
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism, Ch. II, The Continental Reformers, sec. 3, Calvin (Project Gutenberg #71223 (Harcourt, Brace, 1926))
Tawney contrasts the active, reforming character of Calvinism with the socially conservative piety of Lutheranism.
Citation: "It was a creed which sought, not merely to purify the individual, but to reconstruct Church and State, and to renew society by penetrating every department of life, public as well as private, with the influence of religion." — R. H. Tawney, Religion and the Rise of Capitalism, Ch. II, The Continental Reformers, sec. 3, Calvin (Project Gutenberg #71223 (Harcourt, Brace, 1926)). (id tawney-religion-and-the-rise-of-capitalism-q3)
