THE VICTORY OF REASON:How Christianity led to freedom, capitalism, and Western successby Rodney Stark(Random House)Hardcover: 281 pagesPrice: $49.95 (Available from Freedom Publishing)Two great sociologists of the early 20th century, R.H. Tawney and Max Weber, have had a remarkable impact on Western thinking concerning the rise of capitalism. Max Weber, in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (first published in German in 1904), suggested that Calvinism was an essential ingredient i…
