马克斯·韦伯一生思想发展的历程，就是试图用“宗教的经济伦理”这一独特的视角来寻找近代资本主义经济发展的内在合理性。其第一阶段主要是用历史的方法对历史上的经济问题进行探讨，第二阶段主要是从宗教的经济伦理学角度来理解社会经济发展与社会历史发展之间的关系。马克斯·韦伯的宗教经济伦理思想形成有种种原因。 The course of Max Weber’s life thought development attempts to find out the inner rationality of modern capitalist economic development from the unique perspective of “religious economic ethics”. The first phase mainly discusses historical economic problems by historical methods. The second phase mainly discusses the relationship between social and economic development and social and historical development from the perspective of religious economic ethics. There are many reasons for Max Weber’s religious economic ethics.