CONTENTS

PREFACE TO 1937 EDITION

PREFATORY NOTE

INTRODUCTION

1THE MEDIEVAL BACKGROUND

(i)The Social Organism

(ii)The Sin of Avarice

(iii)The Ideal and the Reality

2THE CONTINENTAL REFORMERS

(i)The Economic Revolution

(ii)Luther

(iii)Calvin

3THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND

(i)The Land Question

(ii)Religious Theory and Social Policy

(iii)The Growth of Individualism

4THE PURITAN MOVEMENT

(i)Puritanism and Society

(ii)A Godly Discipline versus the Religion of Trade

(iii)The Triumph of the Economic Virtues

(iv)The New Medicine for Poverty

5CONCLUSION

NOTES

INDEX