The capacity for the accomplishment of religious virtuosos — the “intellectual sacrifice”— is the decisive characteristic of the positively religious man. That this is so is shown by the fact that in spite of (or rather in consequence) of theology (which unveils it) the tension between the value-spheres of “science” and the sphere of “the holy” is unbridgeable.
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Max Weber, The Theory of Social and Economic Organization, A. H. Henderson and Talcott Parsons (ed.). Glencoe, Ill.: Free Press, 1947. A translation of part I of Max Weber's Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft: Grundriß der verstehenden Soziologie from 1924. This work translated in full is published in 1978, entitled Economy and Society.--->