Problem
a) Explain Finney's argument about man's role in bringing on revivals for his own salvation. Why might this have been controversial?
b) Some of Finney's greatest revival successes occurred in the Burned-over District of upstate New York, those "overnight" towns and cities along the newly created Erie Canal. Why do you think his message resonated there?
c) Some historians have described the era of the Second Great Awakening as the "democratization of American Christianity." To what extent was Finney's revival message "democratic"?