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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... sufferings of every human individual . The theology and politics of identification were thus both grounded in and at odds with the larger culture of the antebellum United States . Reformers who promoted iden- tification pitted the ...
... sufferings of every human individual . The theology and politics of identification were thus both grounded in and at odds with the larger culture of the antebellum United States . Reformers who promoted iden- tification pitted the ...
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... suffering body . Yet it is the antithesis of violent power . Just as violence " works " only when the perpetrator derives a sense of invulnerability ( felt subjectively and acknowledged by others ) from the victim's vulnerable body , so ...
... suffering body . Yet it is the antithesis of violent power . Just as violence " works " only when the perpetrator derives a sense of invulnerability ( felt subjectively and acknowledged by others ) from the victim's vulnerable body , so ...
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... suffer from hunger and worry about their children ; Elnathan is mortally wounded and close to his mother ; Margaret is far from home and yet linked to her cousin Rebecca . Each character , in short , recapitulates the primordial human ...
... suffer from hunger and worry about their children ; Elnathan is mortally wounded and close to his mother ; Margaret is far from home and yet linked to her cousin Rebecca . Each character , in short , recapitulates the primordial human ...
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... suffering that just condemnation . " Though Jane steadfastly resists her aunt's theology , Mrs. Wilson's own son is so demoralized by his mother's views on reprobation ( that is , predestination to damnation ) that he becomes a violent ...
... suffering that just condemnation . " Though Jane steadfastly resists her aunt's theology , Mrs. Wilson's own son is so demoralized by his mother's views on reprobation ( that is , predestination to damnation ) that he becomes a violent ...
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... suffer . " 54 The point was clear : people who believe in a violent God are likely to perpetrate violence themselves . Child laid even heavier stress on the Reformed doctrine of election , which she por- trayed as the logical extension ...
... suffer . " 54 The point was clear : people who believe in a violent God are likely to perpetrate violence themselves . Child laid even heavier stress on the Reformed doctrine of election , which she por- trayed as the logical extension ...
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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