« Cum essem monachus, nihil aliud feci, quam quod perdidi tempus, adflixi meam valetudinem" (Martin Luther), "Time is money" (Benjamin Franklin): Investigation du concept TEMPUS (temps): » in Studia Humanitatis: Essays in Honour of Marianne Pade on the Occasion of her Sixty-Fifth Birthday 8 March 2022, eds. Trine Arlund Hass & Outi Merisalo,

The aim of our investigation is to test the hypothesis that language, society and conceptualisation are connected in such a way that societal and conceptual changes manifest themselves in the language. We use the texts of Calvin and Luther as objects of investigation, more precisely their use of the word tempus, because their period witnessed remarkable changes in society and ideology. Our investigation presents a chronological analysis of the use of the word tempus and raises the following questions: Its exact meaning in classical antiquity? Identical meaning during the Reformation? Influence of the Greek equivalent in the original New Testament? Did the catchword "Time is money" originate with the reformers? (Max Weber)