Religion and Economics.

REFORMATION in Germany, The (Book); BOOKS; VEDDER, Henry C.; REFORMATION; RELIGION; SOCIAL movements

This article focuses on the book "The Reformation in Germany," by Henry C. Vedder. Of making many books about reformist Martin Luther and his work there seems to be no visible end. This latest contribution by Vedder, of Crozer Theological Seminary, makes somewhat extraordinary claims to a hearing. In his foreword, Vedder informs readers that the student "will look in vain, in books accessible to him, for the idea that the great religious struggle of the sixteenth century was only a phase of the social revolution then going on in Europe" and that "momentous economic changes were the underlying cause of political and social movements."