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Protestant or Calvinist England and the Dutch Republic are presented as becoming energetic, open, cohesive, trade-oriented societies in contrast with Catholic Spain.
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Protestantism
Jiang frames Catholicism as orthodoxy, hierarchy, and justification by works, and Protestantism as direct access, egalitarianism, and justification by faith.
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Jiang frames Catholicism as orthodoxy, hierarchy, and justification by works, and Protestantism as direct access, egalitarianism, and justification by faith.
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The Black Death and Church corruption make Europeans wonder whether God is punishing a stagnant, evil Church, leading to schism and later challengers such as Wycliffe, Jan Hus, and Martin Luther.
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He summarizes the extreme Christian Zionist Protestant sequence as Israel's reconstitution, the Third Temple, Gog and Magog, the Antichrist, Christ's return, rapture, millennium, and final judgment.
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Protestant reform creates a crisis of faith because the believer must know directly whether they love God and whether God loves them, while doubt or hesitation threatens damnation.
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Protestant direct access to God creates a crisis in faith because believers must prove absolute devotion without institutional mediation.
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Industrial capitalism, in Jiang's account, is driven less by technology than by Protestant anxiety over election, which turns wealth into proof of faith.
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Jiang contrasts Protestant salvation by elect wealth/work, Catholic forgiveness through obedience, and Orthodox dependence on God's mercy because the heart is too dark and mysterious for human redemption.
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"And they're too corrupt, okay? Does that make sense? Now, and what, and because of this, what's happening is that the British, England, the..."
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"decide to join forces with the Catholic Emperor the French 너무 pouquinho okay so I want to show very quickly show you the difference..."
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"So let's go over the Protestant Reformation, all right? The Catholics and the Protestants. So there are three major differences between the Catholics and..."
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"You have to obey our dogma. Even though our dogma doesn't really make much sense, okay? That if hierarchy, of course, leads to corruption,..."
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"And the third idea is justification by works. The second idea is justification by faith. The problem though, of course, is that these three..."
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"Okay? All right. And at first this is fine, but eventually bad things start to happen in Europe. Okay? So the Little Ice Age..."
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"...a successful revolution against the Catholic Church. And this is called Protestantism."
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"Protestantism, okay? And we'll discuss Martin Luther next class. Next class we'll discuss the rise of capitalism. All right? Any questions, guys? Yes?"
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"And so in the Judaic tradition, because Jews have been persecuted for thousands of years, they believe that eventually a messiah of war will..."
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"And once these conditions are met, then to save his people, Jesus will descend from heaven on a cloud, destroy all his enemies and..."
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"...ourselves and so this creates the crisis in faith because in Protestantism you are required to show absolute faith and devotion in God if..."
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"But at this point in history, remember, monotheism is being promoted by the Roman Empire as a way to consolidate its rule over its..."
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