1. Briefly summarize the thesis of Robert Wilken’s essay, “Christianity Face to Face with Islam” which presents a very different description of the encounter between Christianity and Islam than what is considered the conventional wisdom. “ Wilken is a professor at the University of Virginia and is a highly regarded Christian thinker and historian. The essay is available at http://www.firstthings.com/article/2009/01/001-christianity-face-to-face-with-islam.
2. Friedrich Nietzsche’s “The Principle of Resentment,” sees the development of Christianity (and Judaism to a lesser extent) as an expression of the “master-slave” relation. Explain.
3. What was novel in Martin Luther’s doctrine of the “calling” and how did John Calvin’s doctrine of the calling differ from Luther’s and why was the difference important?
4. What was the Calvinist doctrine of “double predestination” and what were its religio-social consequences?
5. What were the major religious consequences of the Peace of Westphalia (1648)? See the article, “Sovereignty,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sovereignty/ .
6. What was Max Weber’s theory of the rise of capitalism?
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