Identifying the Image of God: Radical Christians and Nonviolent Power in the Antebellum United StatesOxford University Press, 2002 M11 14 - 304 páginas Between 1820 and 1860, American social reformers invited all people to identify God's image in the victims of war, slavery, and addiction. Identifying the Image of God traces the theme of identification--and its liberal Christian roots--through the literature of social reform, focusing on sentimental novels, temperance tales, and slave narratives, and invites contemporary activists to revive the "politics of identification." |
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... insistence that his followers love their neighbors as themselves were the first and most authoritative calls for identification. Social reformers also drew on the ancient Christian doctrine of the imago dei—the belief that each human ...
... insistence that his followers love their neighbors as themselves were the first and most authoritative calls for identification. Social reformers also drew on the ancient Christian doctrine of the imago dei—the belief that each human ...
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... insisted that existing social institutions fell far short of embodying those values. The most consistent reformers may be characterized as “radical Christian liberals,” for they took to revolutionary extremes the Christian values of the ...
... insisted that existing social institutions fell far short of embodying those values. The most consistent reformers may be characterized as “radical Christian liberals,” for they took to revolutionary extremes the Christian values of the ...
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... insisted that many or most people have been predestined to ultimate exclusion from the human family. Perhaps most important, social reformers believed that their efforts to build a better society would be guaranteed by divine power ...
... insisted that many or most people have been predestined to ultimate exclusion from the human family. Perhaps most important, social reformers believed that their efforts to build a better society would be guaranteed by divine power ...
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... insisted on rooting human benevolence in the everyday affections implanted by a loving God. Since human and divine benevolence were intimately linked, the mere observation of God's love, they believed, could inspire humans to act Wheat ...
... insisted on rooting human benevolence in the everyday affections implanted by a loving God. Since human and divine benevolence were intimately linked, the mere observation of God's love, they believed, could inspire humans to act Wheat ...
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... insisted David Hume, noting that the ideas we use to make sense of experience, such as the principle of causality, cannot themselves be grounded in experience. The threat of Humean skepticism led many thinkers to step back from Locke's ...
... insisted David Hume, noting that the ideas we use to make sense of experience, such as the principle of causality, cannot themselves be grounded in experience. The threat of Humean skepticism led many thinkers to step back from Locke's ...
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The Emergence of Radical Christian Liberalism | 46 |
Theology and Literature of Ultra Reform | 66 |
Violence and Theology in Temperance Narratives | 102 |
Violence Birth and the Imago Dei in Fugitive Slave Narratives | 127 |
Nonviolent Power in Harriet Beecher Stowes Antislavery Novels | 157 |
Radical Christian Liberals and the Civil War | 174 |
Liberal Irony | 215 |
Notes | 219 |
Bibliography | 257 |
Index | 281 |
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