McKanan, Dan - Identifying the Image of God: Radical Christians and Nonviolent Power in the Antebellum United States

Oxford / New York, Oxford University Press, 2002. orig.boards. 24x15cm, ix,294 pp.. Minor rubbing. Small spot to cover. VG. ¶ Contents: Introduction: The Power of identification; Wheat & Tares: The Liberal Encounter with Puritan Violence; From Sentimentality to Social Reform: The Emeregence of Radical Christian Liberalism; The Gospel, the Declaration & the Divine Child: Theology & Literature of Ultra Reform; Looking for Victims: Violence & Theology in Temperence Narratives; Through the Blood-Stained Gate: Violence, Birth & Imago Dei in Fugitive Slave Narratives; Epics of Ambivalence: Nonviolent Power in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Antislavery Novels; Violent Messiahs: Radical Christian Liberals and the Civil War; Conclusion; Liberal Irony.