The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: and Other Writings (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Weber Max

Author:Weber, Max [Weber, Max]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2002-04-30T04:00:00+00:00

158) Here too the religious journals that A. H. Francke recommends the faithful to keep are the outward sign of this. Methodical practice and the habit of sanctification should bring about further growth in sanctification and the separation of good people from the wicked. This is roughly the basic theme of Francke’s book Von des Christen Vollkommenheit.

159) Characteristically, this rational Pietist belief in providence, which is at variance with the orthodox interpretation, emerged in the celebrated dispute between the Pietists of Halle and the representative of Lutheran orthodoxy Löscher. In his “Timotheus Verinus,” Löscher goes as far as to set everything that can be achieved by human activity in in opposition to the decrees of providence. By contrast, the view that was always firmly held by Francke was that the flash of “clearness” about what was to be done (the result of quiet waiting for the decision) was “a sign from God.” This is analogous to the Quaker psychology and corresponds to the general ascetic idea that a rational methodical approach is the way to come closer to God. True, Zinzendorf in no way shares Francke’s kind of faith in providence. He did, after all, in one of his most important decisions, determine the destiny of his congregation by drawing lots.

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