SOCL 3101 Chapter : SOCL3101 Oneil 02172016
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Roman catholicism prohibits usury; but the question is, what does this term mean? legal codes, but for others, including roman catholic church, it meant any interest on a loan. Certainly, capitalism is something that had a long development going back to the middle ages, and slowly and steadily grew until it finally replaced fatalism as the dominant economic system in europe. So by the time the religious wars, capitalism was already well established. Capitalism by its very ships to india or the south seas to bring back spices, or to engage in the slave trade or whatever. Capitalism, where he tried to demonstrate how religion could shape an economy in contrast to karl marx"s ideas about economic determinism. We also talked about some criticisms which came up quite quickly with the publication form of protestantism called calvinism, then he had to back off from calling it all. Protestantism, and then back off from that to just christianity.
