Chapter II: Introduction: ix

CHAPTER

I. THE MEDIEVAL BACKGROUND 1

THE SOCIAL ORGANISM 14

THE SIN OF AVARICE 36

THE IDEAL AND THE REALITY 55

II. THE CONTINENTAL REFORMERS 63

THE ECONOMIC REVOLUTION 66

LUTHER 79

CALVIN 102

III. THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND 133

THE LAND QUESTION 137

RELIGIOUS THEORY AND SOCIAL POLICY 150

THE GROWTH OF INDIVIDUALISM 175

IV. THE PURITAN MOVEMENT 195

PURITANISM AND SOCIETY 198

A GODLY DISCIPLINE VERSUS THE RELIGION OF TRADE 211

THE TRIUMPH OF THE ECONOMIC VIRTUES 227

THE NEW MEDICINE FOR POVERTY 253

V. CONCLUSION 275

NOTES 289

INDEX 327

CHAPTER I

THE MEDIEVAL BACKGROUND

“La miséricorde de Dieu est infinie: elle sauvera même un riche.”

ANATOLE FRANCE, _Le Puits de Sainte Claire_.