It is remarkable that before the movement for social endeavour in international Protestantism in the 20th century the largest clear position on collective effort we can find is the movement of culturally restricted social purpose property in monastic control to private hands. This was resisted dearly, not merely for the Virgin’s sake, but for the sake of better wages and conditions that peasants had subsisted upon. YMMV but the economic rediscovery of the moral obligation to the social, and then the conservative celebration of social endeavour, is possibly America’s greatest contribution to theology.

Some say that weltkrieg Torydom and postwar Labour in the UK went the same path, but they went later and without the theology. Comparatively in middle Europe.
 
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