… Protestantism, quest ‘rational knowledge’ God’s purpose understand — Nicholas Gane, Max Weber Postmodern Theory: Rationalization Versus Re-enchantment

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… Protestantism, in its quest for 'rational knowledge' of God's purpose and for an understanding of this world, engendered its own demise, for it lent legitimacy to a secular science that in turn rejected and devalued all religious values. And in this respect, Protestantism effectively devalued or disenchanted itself, for in its attempt to prove its own intrinsic rationality through non-religious means it affirmed the value of science, and with this laid itself open to the charge of irrationalism and to attack from the outside from 'rational', secular forms of this-worldly legitimation.

Nicholas Gane, Max Weber and Postmodern Theory: Rationalization Versus Re-enchantment

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