Disenchanting Protestantism?

From the perspective of Reformation-as-Christianization, Hendrix is able to throw fresh light on the Weberian claim that Protestantism led to a “disenchantment” of the world. He admits that “elements of secularization were present in the Reformation”: “To the extent that Protestants affirmed life in the world over monasticism - the dignity of daily work, domestic roles, and civic responsibility - they enhanced the value of worldly vocations, and without rejecting monasticism Catholics affirmed law vocations as a Christian way of life” (154). But this was not “secularism,” since it didn't involve discarding “a sacred view of the universe.”

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