κλη̃σισ/Beruf: Luther, Weber, Agamben

Frey, Christiane

doi:10.1215/0094033x-2008-012

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“…Si Weber interpretó bien o no a San Pablo sobre el tema del deber en una vocación (Beruf en alemán, griego) está más allá del alcance de este artículo (ver, p. ej., Frey, 2008), pero cabe debe mencionar brevemente el análisis de Giorgio Agamben (2005).…”

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La tesis de la ética protestante de Weber en cinco pasos

Chriss

2021

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Como resultado de muchos anos de leer y ensenar la famosa tesis de la ética protestante de Max Weber, he desarrollado un enfoque para cubrir este material, tanto en mis cursos de teoria de pregrado como de posgrado, que ha sido beneficioso para los estudiantes y les ha ayudado a dar sentido al complejo argumento desarrollado por Weber. Presento un modelo de trabajo de todas estas investigaciones académicas ligadas a la triada de la ciencia, que culminan en un enfoque de cinco pasos para organizar y explicar la tesis de Weber. Anado, ademas, una bibliografia comentada de reflexiones academicas sobre el trabajo de Weber en general y la tesis de la ética protestante en particular.

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La tesis de la ética protestante de Weber en cinco pasos

Chriss

2021

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“…One’s external, worldly vocation is the central opportunity for pursuing the Christian vocation to love the neighbor (Luther 1961, 379). This is why Christiane Frey describes Luther as “doubling vocation,” in his approach to worldly and spiritual callings, but this doubling does not result in a secularized separation of the spiritual and the secular, or a spiritualization of the secular, but rather both “the realms of the political and the quotidian collapse into that of the divine,” or, in other words, the “politics of daily activity” become “theologized” (Frey 2008, 48). While scholars such as Jouni Tilli have shown how Lutheran preaching is an important cause for this mode of Lutheran moral subjectivity (2019, 121–125), I wish to foreground how Luther’s treatment of the Mass is central to the “collapse” of liturgical subjectivity into the domain of ethics identified by Agamben as decisive for western ethics and politics.…”

Section: Luther and The Sacrificial Mask Of Godmentioning

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Instruments of immolation: Giorgio Agamben and the Eucharistic reformations of the sixteenth century

Yoder

2020

Critical Research on Religion

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Throughout the Homo Sacer series, Giorgio Agamben takes seriously the political and philosophical significance of Christian ritual in his archaeology of Western political discourse. In Opus Dei, Agamben argues for the sacrifice of the Mass as the paradigm for the ontology of effectivity, an ontology he sees as still regnant in the West. This ontology depends on the discourse of duty or office, and it begins with the priestly office. The priest’s duty is to be an “animate instrument” in the Mass. However, Agamben’s archaeology contains a massive gap between scholastic theology and Enlightenment political theory—the Protestant Reformation. I argue that Agamben’s hypothesis requires attending to the reformation of the Mass. Examining the works of Luther and Zwingli, I show that in spite of their rejection of the priesthood, the discourse of duty and operativity not only persists but expands through their respective sacramental theologies.

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“…In the sociological literature, the relationship between religion, spirituality, and work was famously analyzed by Max Weber in his Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. As is well-known, Weber starts with a discussion of Luther's interpretation of the notion of vocation, or "calling" (beruf ), as entailing a spiritualization of worldly activity (Frey 2008). Luther's interpretation of the calling, directly led to the Calvinist notion of inner-worldly asceticism, the key religious orientation that Weber identifies as the basis of the "spirit of capitalism".…”

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“Serving the Lord”: Christianity, Work, and Social Engagement in China

Lim

2019

Religions

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This study examines how Chinese evangelical Protestant employees view work and the workplace, through the lens of their religion, and how they seek to influence the broader society, in a highly restrictive religious domain in China. Using the concept of everyday religion, I examined how these employees seek to integrate faith into their work and the workplace, and the issues and challenges they face in the process. While existing China-focused studies have mainly looked at the experience of the business elite and Christian bosses, I inquired into the experience of the employees, specifically the professional class. It was found that they did not see a clear boundary between the 'religious' and the 'secular' in the workplace. At the same time, they discursively constructed a distinction between their own Christian work ethos and that of their non-Christian colleagues. This discursive self-othering was double-edged. While it enabled the Christian employees to construct a distinctive workplace and social identity, it risked resulting in them being perceived negatively by non-Christian colleagues, as belonging to a "different kind" (linglei), thus, accentuating the social gulf and tension that might have already existed between the Christian and the non-Christian employees. Most regard the workplace as an important arena for the concrete expressions of their Christian faith and values in everyday life. In doing so, they seek a moral transformation of the workplace, as a way to transform the wider society. I argue that their effort to influence their colleagues and transform the workplace culture is an important kind of unobtrusive social engagement, without open mobilization in civil society.

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κλη̃σισ/Beruf: Luther, Weber, Agamben

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La tesis de la ética protestante de Weber en cinco pasos

La tesis de la ética protestante de Weber en cinco pasos

Instruments of immolation: Giorgio Agamben and the Eucharistic reformations of the sixteenth century

“Serving the Lord”: Christianity, Work, and Social Engagement in China

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