Nature's Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present

by Philipp Blom

A new kind of messianic hope was now introduced, a different kind of religion, a new theology. It was less created than—appropriately for such a religious idea—resurrected from the dead, from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It was the gospel of the unimpeded rule of the free market.