Lew Basnight and the Protestant Ethic

[Mark Kohut]

P. 41"Penance? You'll do that anyway. You're not Catholic, Mr Basnight?
   "Presbyterian"

...Drave tells himn there is no "mathematical' correlation between sin, penance, and redemption..."You are redeemed not through doing penance but because it happens. Or doesn't happen."

Very Calvinist, Protestant predestination echoing, yes? 

Drave [check name] continues: "Most people have a wheel riding up on a wire, or some rails in the street, some kind of guide or groove, to keep them moving in the direction of their destiny. But you keep bouncing free.
Avoiding penance and thereby definition."

Drave drives [sic] home Lew's Calvinist origins....yet, Lew 'bounces free"...[echoes of 'keep it bouncing'?]...........

Doing penance in THAT tradition is to define oneself as needing such because of one's predestination?  

TRP gives us in Lew a main character and thread of someone who moves beyond the Saved/Damned, Elect/Preterite condition personally.