Protestant Project: Five Hundred Years Later

... form; in economics it was the primacy of profit and financial gain; and in politics, it was the construction of a liberal society. Protestantism created a pseudo-Christian system that catered to the anthropocentric and humanistic aspirations of the European people. Liberalism, capitalism and Protestantism all became elements of a single puzzle that went by the name of “rationalism.” Or, to put it slightly differently, they were “three sources and three component parts.” Figuratively speaking, Protestantism was a magic box with a crucifix,...