![]() Imagine if Rome had taught about secular work as part of the priesthood of all believers. What Winters reveals is that Rome has never caught up to Protestants on vocation and how to understand work in the world (whether you make a lot of money or not). And Winters thinks Roman Catholic conservatives are guilty of dualism. Notice the either-or perspective on wealth - either it’s from God or from the devil. And Calvinism, the strongest religious influence in our culture, has always had a soft spot for wealth, seeing it as evidence of divine approval, rather than as the devil laying his traps. ![]() There is something to the argument, to be sure, but there was a fascination with the robber barons and the Newport elite longer before “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous” came along. ![]() ![]() We as a culture used to know money was corrupting, but have forgotten that fact in recent years. In his daily set of links to items of interest, Michael Sean Winters commits this drive by: ![]()
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