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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The process of modern Western secularization according to Max Weber began with ancient Jewish monotheism and took a decisive step in capitalism’s debt to Calvinism. “Die Entzauberung der Welt” the elimination of magic from the world is a religious impulse whose genesis resides in “the old Hebrew prophets and in conjunction with Hellenistic scientific thought.” It was Isaiah Jeremiah and a Psal- mist who denounced “idols” as no more than blocks of wood and stone: “Those who make them are like them; so are all who trust them” (Psalm 115:8). The figures were not inhabited by spirits or gods but consisted only of dead matter. The emptiness of idols was a way of pointing to the real architect of the universe and human affairs-the one true God in heaven whose people was Israel. For the prophets the magic did not leak from carved figures like some vital fluid; it was never there to begin with. Idols were nothing but the product of human folly. (LL)