You can’t influence the decision God made and for all Protestants it was absolutely necessary to believe you were one of the chosen and to act that way. So, the Protestants started searching for a sign, to know they were ‘selected’. The Protestants believed that in the beginning, already before creating the earth, God decided who to save for eternity, apart from actions and the free will of humans. They argued that there was nothing like an assurance for salvation. The leading persons of the Reformation were Martin Luther and John Calvin. Weber found the origins of these ethics related to the Reformation, a revolt of the Protestant against the Roman Catholic Church and her ideas about salvation and assurance of that (Mok, 2009). The majority of northern Europe was Protestant and these people had different ethics then others. He wrote about the relation between capitalism in the northern part of Europe and the religion of this part of Europe. The book ‘The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism’ is written by the German sociologist Max Weber in 1905.
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