ANTHRO 41A Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: John Calvin, Royal Netherlands Army, English Army

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The middle class was becoming financially more powerful, but the church and nobility looked negatively at this change. The church generally taught that the love of money was a sin. +a lot of paintings from this time period portrayed the negative view of greed. +a common criticism was that the middle class was doing something evil to garner wealth. Both the catholic church and martin luther were critical of the growing wealth of the middle class. +the nobility was also afraid of this growing wealth. A lot of the middle class was engaged in loaning money and charging interest. +the catholic, lutheran, and anglican churches view this as sinful. +however, john calvin would have a very different view, his teachings would attract a large following among europe"s middle class. Used jesus" parable of the talents to justify his claim that the middle classes were actually doing what god wanted. +in the story, a slave master entrusted three slaves with coins.

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