EAS essay 2

Garrison reform focus

abolition and moral purity

Garrison relation to Finney

shares Finney’s perfectionism and moral urgency

Stanton reform focus

womens rights and social equality

Stanton relation

shares Finney’s activism, rejects his religious basis

Wayland Reform

moral education, gradual reform

Wayland relation

shares Finney’s moral concern but not revivalism

Finney

-people are not passive (submissive) and they choose moral improvement

-society can be perfected through Christian actions

-emphasis on emotion and personal change

Stanton

-reform is active and necessary

-saw religion as a barrier to women progress

Garrison

-tied reform to Christian perfectionism

-more radical and confrontational

Wayland

-stressed moral reasoning over emotional revivalism

-intellectual and gradual approach

-believed in social improvement through education