http://www.acton.org/pub/religion-liberty/volume-10-number-3/how-christianity-created-capitalism
by Michael Novak
Capitalism, it is usually assumed, flowered around the same time as the Enlightenment–the eighteenth century–and, like the Enlightenment, entailed a diminution of organized religion. In fact, the Catholic Church of the Middle Ages was the main locus...
