Contents INTRODUCTION PREFACE 10 1937 EpiTioN L Tur Mepievar BACKGROUND The Social Organism The Sin of Avarice The Ideal and the Reality I. Tue CONTINENTAL REFORMERS The Economic Revolution Luther Calvin UL Top CrURCH oF ENGLAND The Land Question Religious Theory and Social Policy The Growth of Individualism lv, THe Puritan Movement Puritanism and Society os A Gedly Discipline Versus the Religion o Trade The Triumph of the Economic Virtues The New Medicine for Poverty Vv. CoNcLusIoN NOTES INDEX 3 11 20 30 S4 61 62 72 9] 116 118 128 140 164 165 176 189 210 227 237 271