A cultural departure from this original thread.
Note that Protestant Work Ethic isn't something that there's a hard and fast definition for, more like a cultural stereotype that Max Weber came up with and analyzed. I just ask this because I read an article that talks about how modern Germany isn't so keen to help out the rest of Europe because of its Lutheran roots. However, I wonder if what we associate with Protestant Work Ethic is more of a Calvinist- specifically, English Puritan- thing, and that North Germans were always frugal and hard-working, even before the Reformation. Certainly, Luther did help popularize the idea of occupation as vocation, but I'd think Jean Calvin and the Calvinists emphasized it more than Luther and the Lutherans did.
Note that Protestant Work Ethic isn't something that there's a hard and fast definition for, more like a cultural stereotype that Max Weber came up with and analyzed. I just ask this because I read an article that talks about how modern Germany isn't so keen to help out the rest of Europe because of its Lutheran roots. However, I wonder if what we associate with Protestant Work Ethic is more of a Calvinist- specifically, English Puritan- thing, and that North Germans were always frugal and hard-working, even before the Reformation. Certainly, Luther did help popularize the idea of occupation as vocation, but I'd think Jean Calvin and the Calvinists emphasized it more than Luther and the Lutherans did.