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Book Review: True Religion

would rather do anything but go into a MacDonald’s when in Tokyo. The analogy just does not hold good! One major shortcoming of the work is that Tropman takes much of what Weber said in his work at face value without treating the vast amount of literature which was highly critical of Weber’s Protestant ethic thesis. The result is that Tropman is as susceptible as Weber was to the charge of parody, even with an ‘ideal type’ qualification. So much of what Weber said was simply wide of the mark and without any empirical basis at all. All of this having being said, it is an enjoyable, thought-provoking and smooth-flowing read. A key theme which provides the means to understanding the distinctive ethos of the Catholic ethic is the notion of caritas, charity, itself. The volume is littered with genuinely insightful and stimulating passages and ideas throughout. It is, in the final analysis, an axiological rather than (technically) ethical study. Values are examined apart from the ethical foundations and frameworks that give rise to and shape them — for each of the terms ‘Catholic’ and ‘Protestant’, themselves, envelop a widely differing series of moral outlooks (as Tropman would readily acknowledge).