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European Protestant current Jiang associates with merchants, hard work, wealth retention, and middle-class England.
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Calvinism
European Protestant current Jiang associates with merchants, hard work, wealth retention, and middle-class England.
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Protestant or Calvinist England and the Dutch Republic are presented as becoming energetic, open, cohesive, trade-oriented societies in contrast with Catholic Spain.
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Calvinist double predestination turns hard work, wealth accumulation, and non-consumption into evidence that God favors a person.
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The Dutch Republic becomes energetic because Calvinism treats wealth as evidence of salvation and channels labor into accumulation.
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Franklin’s model of becoming rich depends not only on honesty and frugality but on appearing industrious, simple, Calvinist, and reputation-worthy.
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Puritans are defined as reformers who want to purge Catholic remnants from the Church of England while staying inside or reshaping it.
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Jiang reads English religious conflict as a proxy for class: merchants and the middle class prefer Calvinism, while nobles and Catholic sympathizers resist reform.
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Calvinist justification by faith relocates proof of faith away from church-mediated works and into the direct relation between the individual and God.
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Virtuous hard work and accumulated money become signs of faith, creating a shift from status identity to wealth, class, and market identity.
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"And they're too corrupt, okay? Does that make sense? Now, and what, and because of this, what's happening is that the British, England, the..."
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"decide to join forces with the Catholic Emperor the French 너무 pouquinho okay so I want to show very quickly show you the difference..."
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"Because the Catholic Church says, you know what? Only we can decide who goes to heaven, so if you disobey us, you'll burn in..."
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"Okay? So you can only invest the money. All right, and as you can understand, the merchant oligarchies love this because now they're taking..."
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"...so powerful is that it's ruled by merchants who now adopted Calvinism. Remember, Calvinism is the faith that wealth itself signals that you will..."
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"Okay? And the reason why, it is a monopoly over the spice trade from the East Indies. It has its own army, it has..."
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"And in order to insure my credit. And character as a tradesman, I took care not only to be really industrious and frugal, but..."
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"That if you do work hard, if you are honest, and if you save a lot of money, then it's possible for you to..."
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"...then what's gonna happen is you will have new ideas, basically Calvinism, come in from Europe, okay? Why is Calvinism important? It's because, you..."
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"...religion, you have to keep your money for yourself, right? So Calvinism is a much more popular religion in Britain than the Catholic religion..."
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"Church of England, it's fine, but there's certain things within the Church of England which is too much like the Catholic Church, so if..."
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"And these people we call separatists, okay? And they will become the pilgrims, because obviously the king will persecute these people. They will feel,..."
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