The Burned-Over District: The Sectarians that Shaped the American Church

White Horse Inn

Sola Media

Christianity, History, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 16 November 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

What do Charles Finney, Ellen G. White, and Joseph Smith have in common? They come from the "Burned-Over District." From revival tents to utopian communes, Michael Horton, Justin Holcomb, Walter Strickland, and Bob Hiller explore how 19th-Century upstate New York became ground zero for America's religious experiments.

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0:49.0	If you compare Immanuel Kant, we've talked about in another episode, Emmanuel Kant and Charles Finney, they both believed that, as Kant put it, ought implies can. If God commands something, it must be possible. And so you can live a perfect life. You can surrender to the moral intuitions in such a way that, as Kant himself put it,
1:21.4	not the pleading of the blood of Christ, but your own repentance,
1:28.3	your own conversion experience
1:31.2	suffices now
1:33.6	in the place of hell.
1:36.2	Now you get out
1:37.5	by the sincerity of your repentance.
1:41.4	And that is very much
1:43.6	Charles Finney's view.
1:45.9	Yeah.
1:46.0	Applying the riches of the Reation to the modern church.
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