History of the United States I / Unit 13 USH1 1802 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Against Predestination
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The idea
The revival's emphasis on personal salvation rejected predestination, the Calvinist belief that God had selected only certain people to be saved.
In practice
A religious individualism matching the Jacksonian celebration of the ordinary individual.
Where people slip
A doctrine that anyone may be saved by their own turning is a democratic claim as much as a theological one.
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