Confessionalization

Peter Leithart notes here about the value of the "confessionalization thesis" as a tool to explain the rise of the modern state.  I found confessionalization useful in correlating the rise of Puritanism and market capitalism in early modern England here.  Puritan covenant theology was not the cause of market capitalism but the failure of the Jacobean monarchy to take either into account led to its decapitation and the eventual triumph of England's parliamentary system.