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The feminist ethic and the spirit of the new capitalism.(LOVE & MONEY)(Critical essay)

In his classic essay "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism," Max Weber showed how one variant of Christianity, Protestantism, emerged as the key legitimating idea of early capitalism. With Catholicism, salvation was assured by submission to the Church's authority. With Calvinist Protestantism, God's grace was less certain. Protestants could only fathom whether they were fulfilling God's will, and would become one of the Elect, by measuring their progress in material terms. In this way, pious churchmen felt vindicated and assured of heavenly reward when they achieved worldly success.

Central to the Protestant ethic was the notion of work as a vocation. If work ...

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