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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... hope is that the present study will help revive that tradition . As a historian , I believe that we seriously misunderstand antebellum social reform if we fail to recognize its roots in liberal Christian theology . As a theologian , I ...
... hope is that the present study will help revive that tradition . As a historian , I believe that we seriously misunderstand antebellum social reform if we fail to recognize its roots in liberal Christian theology . As a theologian , I ...
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... hope that hu- mans might overcome the violence of history through the exercise of nonviolent power . The repudiation of orthodox theology was thus a prerequisite to radical social reform . And yet few antebellum liberals were willing to ...
... hope that hu- mans might overcome the violence of history through the exercise of nonviolent power . The repudiation of orthodox theology was thus a prerequisite to radical social reform . And yet few antebellum liberals were willing to ...
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... Hope Leslie , Sedgwick told of an Indian chief who is naturally given to the " human virtues " but succumbs to the passion of vengeance when his oldest son is killed and his other children are kid- napped by the whites . His temporary ...
... Hope Leslie , Sedgwick told of an Indian chief who is naturally given to the " human virtues " but succumbs to the passion of vengeance when his oldest son is killed and his other children are kid- napped by the whites . His temporary ...
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... hope , that gave to his countenance an expression of angelic goodness . " 69 Liberal novels are also filled with angelic mothers whose orphaned children pray as often to them as to God . When Sedgwick's Hope Leslie is in trouble , she ...
... hope , that gave to his countenance an expression of angelic goodness . " 69 Liberal novels are also filled with angelic mothers whose orphaned children pray as often to them as to God . When Sedgwick's Hope Leslie is in trouble , she ...
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... Hope Leslie , chides his wife when she says that an unconverted Pequod woman had died " in her sins . " " We should not suit God's mercy , " he says , " to the narrow frame of our thoughts . " Then , as a good Puritan , he cites a ...
... Hope Leslie , chides his wife when she says that an unconverted Pequod woman had died " in her sins . " " We should not suit God's mercy , " he says , " to the narrow frame of our thoughts . " Then , as a good Puritan , he cites a ...
Contenido
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From Sentimentality to Social Reform The Emergence of Radical Christian Liberalism | 46 |
The Gospel the Declaration and the Divine Child Theology and Literature of Ultra Reform | 66 |
Looking for Victims Violence and Theology in Temperance Narratives | 102 |
Through the BloodStained Gate Violence Birth and the Imago Dei in Fugitive Slave Narratives | 127 |
Epics of Ambivalence Nonviolent Power in Harriet Beecher Stowes Antislavery Novels | 157 |
Violent Messiahs Radical Christian Liberals and the Civil War | 174 |
Liberal Irony | 215 |
Notes | 219 |
Bibliography | 257 |
Index | 281 |
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