Ernst Troeltsch focuses his Protestantism and Progress on two
main areas. First, he centers on the intellectual and religious
situation, from which the significance and the possibilities of
development possessed by Christianity might be deduced. This leads
to an engaging historical investigation regarding the spirit of the
modern world. Troeltsch argues that the modern world can only be
understood in the light of its relation to earlier epochs of
Christian civilization in Europe. He notes that for anyone who
holds the opinion that in spite of all the significance that
Catholicism retains, the living possibilities of development and
progress are to be found on Protestant soil, the question regarding
the relation of Protestantism to modern civilization becomes of
central importance.
Troeltsch also distinguishes elements in modern civilization
that have proven their value from those which are merely temporary
and lead nowhere. He gives the religious ideas of Christianity a
shape and form capable of doing justice to the absoluteness of
religious conviction, and at the same time considering them in
harmony with what has actually been accomplished towards solution
of the practical problems of the Christian life.
A new introduction by Howard Schneiderman brings this monumental
work into the twenty-first century, and explains why its ideas are
more important than ever, one hundred years after its original
publication.
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