Background
Girardeau, John Lafayette was born on November 14, 1825 in James Island, South Carolina, United States. Son of John Bohum and Claudia (Freer) Girardeau.
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John Lafayette Girardeau
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Attended school of German Friendly Society, Charleston, South Carolina., 1835-1839. Graduated from College of Charleston, 1843, Columbia (South Carolina.) Theological Seminary, 1848.
Career
Served as chaplain Confederate Army, 1861-1865. Pastor Zion Presbyterian Church, Charleston, 1866-1875. Professor theology Columbia Seminary, 1875-1895.
Advocated church (rather than state) education, opposed Darwinist ideas.
Author: The Will in its Theological Relations, 1891.
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He is notable as a Calvinist defender of libertarianism, the teaching that people have free will to choose between alternatives, and that they could have chosen differently than they actually did, rather than a determinist or compatibilist view.
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Married Penelope Hamlin, 1849.
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American