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The Social Teaching of the Christian Churches and Groups

1912 · by Ernst Troeltsch

Historical study of the social teachings of the Christian churches, sects and mystical groups and of how they shaped Western society; it develops the typology of church, sect and mysticism and grew out of Troeltsch’s exchange with Max Weber in Heidelberg.

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