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Quaker Studies: An Overview
The Current State of the Field
Av C. Wess Daniels, Robynne Rogers Healey m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
1214 kr
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In this introductory volume to the Brill Research Perspectives series on Quaker Studies, Quaker Studies, An Overview: The Current State of the Field, C. Wess Daniels, Robynne Rogers Healey, and Jon Kershner investigate Quaker Studies, divided into the three fields of history, theology and …
Quakers Reading Mystics
Häftad, 2018
1240 kr
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Over the centuries, Quakers have read non-Quakers regarded as mystics. This study explores the reception of mystical texts among the Religious Society of Friends, focusing in particular on Robert Barclay and John Cassian, Sarah Lynes Grubb and Jeanne Guyon, Caroline Stephen and Johannes Tauler, …
"To Renew the Covenant"
Religious Themes in Eighteenth-Century Quaker Abolitionism
Häftad, 2018
1240 kr
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In “To Renew the Covenant”: Religious Themes in Eighteenth-Century Quaker Abolitionism, Jon R. Kershner argues that Quakers adhered to a providential view of history, which motivated their desire to take a corporate position against slavery. Antislavery Quakers believed God’s dealings with them, …
British Quakers and Religious Language
Häftad, 2018
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In British Quakers and Religious Language, Rhiannon Grant explores the ways in which this community discusses the Divine. She identifies characteristic patterns of language use and, through a detailed analysis of examples from published sources, uncovers the philosophical and theological claims …
Christian Quaker: George Keith and the Keithian Controversy
Häftad, 2019
1201 kr
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How did the early Quakers understand the relationship between Quakerism and Christianity? Did they think faith in Jesus was necessary? What did they mean by the ‘Light within’? These were the central issues in the Keithian controversy: an explosive schism which broke out among Philadelphian Quakers …
Irish Quaker Hybrid Identities
Complex Identity in the Religious Society of Friends
Häftad, 2019
1201 kr
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Dr Kennedy’s work is a sociological study of Quakers that investigates the impact that sectarianism has had on identity construction within the Religious Society of Friends in Ireland. The research highlights individual Friends’ complex and hybrid cultural, national and theological identities – …
Quaker Epistemology
Häftad, 2019
1240 kr
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Quakerism (the Religious Society of Friends) emerged in the seventeenth century, during a time when philosophical debates about the nature of knowledge led to the emergence of modern science. The Quakers, in conversation with early modern philosophers, developed a distinctive epistemology rooted in …
Liberal Quaker Reconciliation Theology: A Constructive Approach
Häftad, 2020
1240 kr
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This work brings the fields of Christian theologies of atonement and reconciliation and Liberal Quaker theology into dialogue, and lays the foundation for developing an original Liberal Quaker reconciliation theology. This dialogue focuses specifically on the metaphorical language employed to …
Theology from Listening: Finding the Core of Liberal Quaker Theological Thought
Häftad, 2020
2285 kr
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In Theology from Listening: Finding the Core of Liberal Quaker Theological Thought, Rhiannon Grant explores the changes and continuities in liberal Quaker theology over the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries in multiple English-speaking Quaker communities around the world. The work involves …
Liberal Quakerism in America in the Long Nineteenth Century, 1790-1920
Häftad, 2020
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Thomas D. Hamm (Earlham College) argues that a self-conscious, liberal Quakerism emerged in North America between 1790 and 1920. It had three characteristics. The first was a commitment to liberty of conscience. The second was pronounced doubts about orthodox beliefs, such as the divinity of …
Quaker Renaissance and Liberal Quakerism in Britain, 1895-1930
Seeking a Real Religion
Av Joanna Dales
Häftad, 2020
2285 kr
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Many Quakers who reached maturity towards the end of the nineteenth century found that their parents’ religion had lost its connection with reality. New discoveries in science and biblical research called for new approaches to Christian faith. Evangelical beliefs dominant among nineteenth-century …
Quakeriana Latina: Quaker texts in Latin from the 1670s
Av Michael Birkel, Charlotte Northrop
Häftad, 2020
2335 kr
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Quakeriana Latina: Quaker texts in Latin from the 1670s juxtaposes translations of texts written in Latin by arguably the finest early Quaker theologians, George Keith and Robert Barclay. A commentary provides philological, historical, and theological perspectives. The works by Keith are two …
Testament of Devotion and Thomas Kelly, Augustinian Quaker
Av Guy Aiken
Häftad, 2021
1240 kr
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Guy Aiken provides a critical appreciation of Quaker mystic Thomas Kelly (1893-1941) and his classic A Testament of Devotion (1941). This examination of Kelly’s life and devotional writings is largely viewed through an Augustinian lens; Augustine’s Confessions was a touchstone for Kelly after his …
Goatwalking: A Quaker Pastoral Theology
Av Zachary Moon
Häftad, 2021
1240 kr
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Zachary Moon explores the rich traditions of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in relationship to the field of pastoral theology. Firstly, he explores the significance of metaphor in influencing the pastoral theological imagination. This includes revisiting Seward Hiltner’s classic …
Rule of Christ: Themes in the Theology of James Nayler
Häftad, 2021
1240 kr
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During the 1650s, James Nayler was one of the most important leaders of the emerging Quaker movement in England and, arguably, its most effective preacher and writer. However, his legacy has been dominated by events that took place in the summer and autumn of 1656, leading to a conviction for …
George Whitehead and the Establishment of Quakerism
Häftad, 2021
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George Whitehead was a key figure in Quakerism from around 1660 until his death in 1723, but he has been neglected in recent scholarship. He was an effective political lobbyist in the struggle for religious toleration and was active in the developing work of the national Quaker bodies, Yearly …
American Quaker Resistance to War, 1917–1973
Law, Politics, and Conscience
Häftad, 2022
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This historical survey of Quakers in the United States examines their responses to war during World War I, World War II, and the early Cold War, including the Korean and Vietnam conflicts, with particular focus on the social, political, legal, and theological aspects of the Quaker peace testimony. …
James Nayler and the Quest for Historic Quaker Identity
Häftad, 2024
1110 kr
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Scholars continue to dispute the foundations of Quakerism. James Nayler, his prophetic Bristol 'sign' of 1656, and George Fox's relation to him have been of especial interest in defining the movement's identity. Conventionally, historians and theologians have taken either a 'traditional' approach, …
American Christian Programmed Quaker Ecclesiology
A Foundational Model for Future Empirical and Confessional Approaches
Av Derek Brown
Häftad, 2024
1110 kr
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In American Christian Programmed Quaker Ecclesiology, Derek Brown argues that American Christian Programmed Quakerism has inherited a practical and pragmatic ecclesiology at the expense of an ontological understanding of the church. Inspired by the work of Gerben Heitink, Brown proposes a …
Quakers, Ecology, and the Light
Av Cherice Bock, Christy Randazzo
Häftad, 2023
1086 kr
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As the community of life on this planet experiences the anthropogenic climate crisis, what tools from faith traditions can help us meet the coming challenges? By expanding the metaphor of light within the Christian and Quaker traditions to include light’s role in ecosystems, this project develops …
Henry Cadbury
Quaker, Pacifist, and Skeptic
Av James Krippner, David Harrington Watt
Häftad, 2024
1178 kr
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This book introduces readers to the life, thought, social activism and political conflicts of the Quaker intellectual and peace activist Henry Cadbury (1883-1974). Born into an established Orthodox Philadelphia Quaker family, Cadbury was among the most prominent Quaker intellectuals of his day. …
"As the Oracles of God"
Policing the Word in Colonial Quakerism
Häftad, 2024
1110 kr
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"As the Oracles of God" examines how Quakers in colonial America sought to control both the written and spoken word in their religious communities. It looks at the ways in which American Friends set up committees to censor texts deemed heterodox, as well as the ways Quakers sought to moderate the …
Resurrecting Family Histories and Biographies for Members of the Society of Friends in Ireland
John Boles, a Case Study
Av Peter J.F. Coutts, Alan Watson
Häftad, 2024
1178 kr
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Irish Quaker biographers have focused on ministers, the influential and wealthy; many biographies are also unstructured and selective, leaving gaps in the narrative. The current work uses the life and family of John Boles (1661-1731), a Quaker stalwart for 50 years, as a case study for the …
To Hear and to Respond
The Quakers’ Groundbreaking Push for Gay Liberation, 1946-1973
Häftad, 2025
1175 kr
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T. Edmund Harvey
Liberal Ascendant
Av Mark Frankel
Häftad, 2025
1175 kr
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T. Edmund Harvey (1875–1955) is a unique figure, a Quaker who was a member of the British parliament in both world wars. He began as a Liberal Radical MP under Asquith and ended as an Independent Progressive in Churchill’s wartime Parliament. He was a child of the Quaker Renaissance, a …
Open to the Light?
The Impact of Secularisation on British Quaker Ecclesiology
Häftad, 2026
1110 kr
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It has long been a charism of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) that major decisions have been made not by a small leadership group at the apex of the organisation but by the largest possible gathering of the worshipping community, locally or nationally, seeking prayerfully to discern the …
Martha Simmons
A Life
Häftad, 2026
1131 kr
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This is the first book-length study of the early Quaker minister and theologian, Martha Calvert Simmons (1624–1665), regarded as one of the foremost Quaker female ministers in the mid-1650s. Most famous for her organizing role of James Nayler’s entry into Bristol in October 1656 re-enacting …
Fostering Unity through Self-Writing
Dialogic Identity in Seventeenth-Century Quaker Women’s Autobiographical Culture
Av Ivana Ledda
Häftad, 2026
1086 kr
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This book explores the collaborative and interwoven world of male and female Quaker autobiographers in the late seventeenth century. Using cultural semiotics as a guiding framework, it reveals how spiritual experience and self-representation emerge through mutual influence, shared narrative …
