| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.5

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.5 | The History Cooperative

Dan McKanan. Identifying the Image of God: Radical Christians and Nonviolent Power in the Antebellum United States. (Religion in America.) New York: Oxford University Press. 2002. Pp. viii, 294. $52.00.
Dan McKanan's book is revisionist in intent. McKanan excavates a radical liberal Christian theology beneath antebellum reform. His thesis is a corrective to a long line of scholars who have grounded antebellum reform—at least the antislavery part of it—in a more secular liberalism, and an even longer line of scholars who have grounded it in the more orthodox theology of the Second Great Awakening.	1
McKanan presents a convincing case that such antebellum reformers as William Lloyd Garrison, Henry Clarke Wright, and Adin Ballou embraced a radical liberal Christian theology. As he describes it, the tenets of this theology included a millennialist view of history, faith in a providential and caring god, and the certainty that all people are created in the image of such a god (imago dei). According to McKanan, this set of beliefs inspired Garrison and the other "ultras" to identify with the victims of a wide range of social evils. McKanan thus emphasizes how they sought to change the world wholesale, not merely pursue one or more reform cause.	. . .

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