[7.a.8] Directing the Market Revolution for Divine Purpose

wealth and Christians 

[7.a.9] Democratic Religion

The Second Great Awakening rejected straight Calvinist doctrine and appealed to the belief that human beings had the power to improve their own lot in life.  

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Salvation also became more democratic in the newer denomination such as the Baptists and Methodist churches: Man could choose God instead of the other way around. 

[7.b.1] A Very Yankee Religion

Joseph Smith and Book of Mormon.

[7.b.2] The Uniqueness of America

Exeptionalism

[7.b.3] Latter-day Saint Activities

Mormons claimed to be restorationist, meaning a church organized on the principles of the early church founded by Christ and the Apostles.  Smith designated western Missouri as the New Jerusalem, or Zion.

[7.b.4] A Message for the Nations

In 1837, Mormon missionaries first appeared in England.

[7.d.2] A Millennium for Shopkeepers 

Religion seemed to offer the possibility of mankind's perfectibility.  Finney thought the millennium would arrive in 3 months if everyone committed to the ethics he envisioned for a Christian work world.  

Note on the other millenialism: Premillennialism prophesied the destruction of a degenerate world.  Christ, therefore, would return before the millennium began.  This end-of-time sequence was preached by Millerites and Mormons and infiltrated congregations of other sects.  

Embrace of premillenialism suggests people under stress seeking deliverance from forces beyond their control, like escape from a landlord demanding rent, a mean boss, poverty, or an abusive spouse.  More likely people who looked for a destructive Second Coming were people angered by the materialism of the market revolution.