Protestant orientations to work and economics have shaped wider American culture for several centuries. But not all strands of American Protestantism have elevated secular work to the highest echelons of spiritual significance. This book surveys the efforts of a religious movement within white Protestant fundamentalism and its neo-evangelical successors to "make work matter to God."\nToday, bearing the name the "faith and work movement," this effort puts on display the creative capacities of religious and lay leaders to adapt a faith system to the changing social-economic conditions of advanced capitalism. Building from the insights and theory of Max Weber, Andrew Lynn draws on archival research and interviews with movement leaders to survey and assess the surging number of new organizations, books, conferences, worship songs, seminary classes, vocational programming, and study groups promoting classically Protestant and Calvinist ideas of work and vocation. He traces these efforts back to early-twentieth-century business leaders and theologically trained leaders who saw a desperate need to foster a new "work ethic" among religious laity entering into professional, managerial, and creative class work.\nLeaders interviewed for the study recount the challenges of rerouting energies that were previously steered toward inward spirituality, cultural separatism, and proselytization. Through these interviews, Saving the Protestant Ethic captures ongoing in-group tensions and creative adaptation among American evangelicals as they navigate changing class and political dynamics that shape American society.

Saving the Protestant Ethic: Creative Class Evangelicalism and the Crisis of Work

Politics & Social Sciences

Lynn, Andrew

Sociology

Oxford University Press

Methodist Records: Or, Selections from the Journal of ... A. Lynn, Ed. by J. Stokoe

History

Nabu Press

‘What you hold in your hands is a handbook for living: it is an account of how the greatest minds have spoken to us on how to grow and prosper as flesh-and-blood human beings.’Classic Philosophy for the Modern Man is unlike any other philosophy book you may have read. It is inspired by a single concept: that, to thrive in the world, we need ready access to the practical wisdom of our forebears. Classic Philosophy for the Modern Man answers that need by introducing for the general reader the most powerful and enduringly relevant works of great thinkers from around the world, including: •Plato, The Republic•Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics•Marcus Aurelius, Meditations•Chuang-tzu, The Writings of Chuang-tzu•Machiavelli, The Prince•Castiglione, The Courtier•Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom•Hazlitt, ‘On Success’•Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil•Emerson, ‘Spiritual Laws’Together these works teach us how to achieve excellence; how to obtain and exercise power, advance in the world, and live gracefully; how to cultivate nobility of soul; and – above all - how to be one’s own man. There is no better primer in the art of living well.

Classic Philosophy for the Modern Man (Classics for the Modern Man)

Business & Money

Job Hunting & Careers

Howgill House Books

‘Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. Weak men create hard times. The basic premise of this book is that strength and weakness have a spiritual dimension.’Classic Spirituality for the Modern Man takes a radically new approach to the question of spirituality. Its purpose is to bring the spiritual classics alive so that they can once again serve their original and true purpose: to guide and inspire us as we make our way through life. Classic Spirituality for the Modern Man introduces for the general reader selections from the most profound and inspirational of spiritual classics from around the world, including: •The Kybalion •Ecclesiastes •Lao-tzu, Tao Te Ching •Buddha, Dhammapada and ‘On Governance of Thoughts’•Chuang-tzu, The Writings of Chuang-tzu •Huainanzi, ‘The Old Man Who Lost His Horse’•Bhagavad Gita •Al-Ghazali, The Alchemy of Happiness •Rumi, Masnavi •Pascal, Pensées •Schopenhauer, ‘The Vanity of Existence’•Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra •Allen, As a Man ThinkethThese works speak to us of the fundamental principles of spiritual wisdom, the mysterious primordial force of the ‘Tao’, the Buddhist art of maintaining mental and emotional equilibrium, and the essential features of Hindu and Sufi self-cultivation, as well as modern approaches to self-realization. There is no better primer in the art of awakened living.

Classic Spirituality for the Modern Man (Classics for the Modern Man)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Alternative Medicine

Shakespeare is widely considered to be the greatest playwright the world has known. But it has always been difficult and time-consuming to understand his works. This series gives you engaging and readable prose retellings of the complete works, preserving as far as possible for the modern reader Shakespeare’s original language and mood. In this totally new edition, the tales are collected by genre and arranged chronologically. Each genre and each tale has a fresh and insightful introduction by Andrew Lynn. This first volume contains the comedies as retold by Charles and Mary Lamb. Perfect for the Shakespeare aficionado, the student, and the general reader.

Shakespeare Tales: Comedies

Literature & Fiction

Lamb, Mary

Morris, Harrison

Lamb,Charles

Dramas & Plays

Shakespeare is widely considered to be the greatest playwright the world has known. But it has always been difficult and time-consuming to understand his works. This series gives you engaging and readable prose retellings of the complete works, preserving as far as possible for the modern reader Shakespeare's original language and mood. In this totally new edition, the tales are collected by genre and arranged chronologically. Each genre and each tale has a fresh and insightful introduction by Andrew Lynn. This second volume contains the tragedies as retold by Charles and Mary Lamb. Perfect for the Shakespeare aficionado, the student, and the general reader.

Shakespeare Tales: Tragedies

Shakespeare Tales: Roman Tales

STOKES, WINSTON

Quiller-Couch, Arthur

Shakespeare is widely considered to be the greatest playwright the world has known.But it has always been difficult and time-consuming to understand his works.This series gives you engaging and readable prose retellings of the complete works, preserving as far as possible for the modern reader Shakespeare’s original language and mood. In this totally new edition, the tales are collected by genre and arranged chronologically.Each genre and each tale has a fresh and insightful introduction by Andrew Lynn.This fifth volume contains the English histories as retold by Arthur Quiller-Couch and Harrison Morris. Perfect for the Shakespeare aficionado, the student, and the general reader.

Shakespeare Tales: English Histories

Shakespeare is widely considered to be the greatest playwright the world has known. But it has always been difficult and time-consuming to understand his works. This series gives you engaging and readable prose retellings of the complete works, preserving as far as possible for the modern reader Shakespeare's original language and mood. In this totally new edition, the tales are collected by genre and arranged chronologically. Each genre and each tale has a fresh and insightful introduction by Andrew Lynn. This third volume contains the tragicomedies as retold by Charles and Mary Lamb and Harrison Morris. Perfect for the Shakespeare aficionado, the student, and the general reader.

Shakespeare Tales: Tragicomedies

‘Just as in the parable of the boiling frog who does not perceive the gradual increase in the temperature of the water and is boiled alive, so we have by steady increments lost much of our liberty without realizing it. The works in this book cannot give that back; what they can do is to raise our consciousness of the many alternative paths we could have taken—and perhaps, if we have nerve enough, still can take.’Classic Political Philosophy for the Modern Man serves three purposes: it provides an introduction to the greatest political philosophers of the Western tradition; it allows these profound thinkers to speak to the assumptions and prejudices of our own era on topics ranging from democracy and human rights to equalism and speech laws; and it brings the most enduringly relevant of their works alive again for the modern reader. Presenting the very best of Western political philosophy, Classic Political Philosophy for the Modern Man introduces and includes selections from: Plato, RepublicAristotle, PoliticsMachiavelli, The Prince and DiscoursesHobbes, LeviathanLocke, Second Treatise of Government and A Letter Concerning TolerationRousseau, Discourse on Inequality and The Social ContractBurke, Reflections on the Revolution in FranceBentham, Anarchical FallaciesTocqueville, Democracy in AmericaBastiat, The LawMill, On LibertyRoosevelt, Citizenship in a RepublicThere is no better starting point for those who seek a genuinely fresh and insightful view on the major questions of our political existence.

Classic Political Philosophy for the Modern Man (Classics for the Modern Man)

Philosophy

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