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In The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism <\/em> , Weber notes that the \u201cBaptist denominations along with the predestinationists, especially the strict Calvinists, carried out the most radical devaluation of all sacraments as means to salvation, and thus accomplished the religious rationalization of the world in its most extreme form.\u201d Again shifts in sacramental theology are strongly implicated in the rise of modernity. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism , Weber notes that the \u201cBaptist denominations along with the predestinationists, especially the strict Calvinists, carried out the most radical devaluation of all sacraments as means to salvation, and thus accomplished the religious rationalization of the world in its most extreme form.\u201d Again shifts in sacramental […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3021,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theology-liturgical"],"yoast_head":"\nSacraments and modernity<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism , Weber notes that the “Baptist denominations along with the predestinationists, especially the\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, 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