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Quotation from Religion and the Rise of Capitalism by R. H. Tawney
“Compromise is as impossible between the Church of Christ and the idolatry of wealth, which is the practical religion of capitalist societies, as it was between the Church and the State idolatry of the Roman Empire.”
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism, Ch. V, Conclusion (Project Gutenberg #71223 (Harcourt, Brace, 1926))
Tawney's own closing judgment as a Christian socialist; readers who defend commercial society have contested it, while others have taken it as a call to the Church.
Citation: "Compromise is as impossible between the Church of Christ and the idolatry of wealth, which is the practical religion of capitalist societies, as it was between the Church and the State idolatry of the Roman Empire." — R. H. Tawney, Religion and the Rise of Capitalism, Ch. V, Conclusion (Project Gutenberg #71223 (Harcourt, Brace, 1926)). (id tawney-religion-and-the-rise-of-capitalism-q8)
