How Puritans Became Capitalists
February 03, 2015 • by Joe Carter
In his book, Heavenly Merchandize, Mark Valeri, professor of church history at Union Presbyterian Seminary, finds that the American economy as we know it emerged from a series of important shifts in the views of Puritan ministers:
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