ABSTRACT
The chapter examines John Carroll’s Neo-Calvinist sociology, beginning with Carroll’s account of Protestant guilt culture and its assumption that there is no remission of guilt, only sublimation. The chapter follows Carroll as he unfolds the implications of Calvin’s doctrine of redemption, not by works or faith, but by grace alone. Over time this worldview creates a social psychology that combines feelings of individual reticence and modesty with a drive to connect to something larger, an everyday metaphysics of vocational work and companionate marriage, and more recently, nature rambling, sport and DIY activity.
