Kathryn Tanner

Kathryn Eileen Tanner (born 1957) is an Episcopal theologian who serves as the Frederick Marquand Professor of Systematic Theology at Yale Divinity School. Quotes Without need any longer of religious backing, capitalism may now have the power to shape people in its own image. Its conduct-forming spirit may be its own production. ... Capitalism brings along with it, as part of its normal functioning, cultural forms affecting how subjects relate to themselves and to others. Capitalism has cultural concomitants—beliefs, values and norms—that help direct conduct—that get people to do willingly what capitalism requires of them—by encouraging them to see what they are doing and what they must do to get ahead as meaningful, valuable, or simply inevitable. "Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism", Gifford Lecture, University of Edinburgh External links Category:1957 births Category:Living people Category:Theologians from the United States Category:Yale University alumni Category:Yale University faculty Category:University of Chicago faculty Category:Women academics from the United States Category:Women born in the 1950s Category:Christian feminists