# Richard Baxter — The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism character guide

> Richard Baxter in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** the amiable Baxter, Richard Baxter, Baxter, the kindly Baxter

**First appearance:** 0009-iv-the-religious-foundations-of-worldly-asceticism

## Who they are

Puritan divine whose pastoral writings exemplify the practical ethics of ascetic Protestantism.

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