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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... Sedgwick ( 1789-1867 ) , Lydia Maria Child ( 1802-80 ) , Lydia Sigourney ( 1791-1865 ) , and Eliza Buckminster Lee ( 1788 / 94- 1864 ) —all descendants of the Puritans with deep reservations about Puritan theology — had applied to ...
... Sedgwick ( 1789-1867 ) , Lydia Maria Child ( 1802-80 ) , Lydia Sigourney ( 1791-1865 ) , and Eliza Buckminster Lee ( 1788 / 94- 1864 ) —all descendants of the Puritans with deep reservations about Puritan theology — had applied to ...
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... Sedgwick summed up the situation by noting " I do not know that the course of unitarianism as such makes very rapid progress , but liberal principles— sure pioneers — are fast gaining ground . " 7 The individual closest to the heart of ...
... Sedgwick summed up the situation by noting " I do not know that the course of unitarianism as such makes very rapid progress , but liberal principles— sure pioneers — are fast gaining ground . " 7 The individual closest to the heart of ...
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... Sedgwick com- pared the sexual love of a man and a woman to God's expansive love . Their love , she wrote , " constantly enlarging its circle , embraced within its compass all that could be benefited by their active efforts and heavenly ...
... Sedgwick com- pared the sexual love of a man and a woman to God's expansive love . Their love , she wrote , " constantly enlarging its circle , embraced within its compass all that could be benefited by their active efforts and heavenly ...
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... Sedgwick found in moral sense theory the basis for an optimistic pedagogy . It was , one of her characters suggests , " far easier to persuade the infirm to vir- tue than to vice . There is an unbroken chord in every human heart that ...
... Sedgwick found in moral sense theory the basis for an optimistic pedagogy . It was , one of her characters suggests , " far easier to persuade the infirm to vir- tue than to vice . There is an unbroken chord in every human heart that ...
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... Sedgwick made clear that her interest was not in Quakerism as such but in " that great cause , that has stimulated the highest minds to the sublimest actions ; that calls its devotees from the gifted , its martyrs from the moral heroes ...
... Sedgwick made clear that her interest was not in Quakerism as such but in " that great cause , that has stimulated the highest minds to the sublimest actions ; that calls its devotees from the gifted , its martyrs from the moral heroes ...
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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