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Rex Ambler's collection of passages from the writings of George Fox
(1624-1691) is intended to make available his clearest and most
profound writings from the whole range of his works, and to display
them in such a way as to show the connections between them. It
should therefore be possible, reading the text through, to gain a
picture of Fox's whole vision. The anthology is presented in
parallel with a translation into modern English, a glossary and a
concluding essay 'Making sense of Fox'. This edition has some minor
revisions.
Extracted from Pacifism in the United States, this work focuses on
the significant contribution of the Quakers to the history of
pacifism in the United States. Originally published in 1971. The
Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology
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distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These
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presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The
goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access
to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books
published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
William Penn is justly famous for his part in the political
development of colonial America. Yet he was also one of the leading
Quaker theologians of the seventeenth century and the most
important translator of Quaker religious thought into social and
political reality, and his life and works cannot be fully
understood without a knowledge of his religious hopes and ideals.
Melvin Endy goes beyond the political histories, biographies, and
histories of Quakerism to provide a comprehensive account of Penn's
religious thought, its influence on his political thought and
activity, and the significance of his life and thought to the
Quaker movement. His assessment of Penn's place in the Quaker
movement and his discussion of Penn's thought in relation to
Puritan, Spiritualist. Anglican, and pre-Enlightenment developments
has led to an understanding of Quakerism that differs from the
recent tendency to stress strongly its Puritan origins and
affinities. Because of the revisionist nature of this
interpretation and the author's conviction that early Quaker
thought has never been adequately related to its intellectual
milieu, this study of Penn has been developed into a vehicle for a
new analysis of aspects of early Quaker thought. Finally, the
Pennsylvania venture is examined and assessed as a laboratory in
which the vision of a society run according to the principles of a
spiritual religion was put to the test. Originally published in
1973. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books
while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase
access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of
books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in
1905.
How might our worship recapture and reflect the enchanted world of
God's nearness in Jesus Christ? In this first volume in IVP
Academic's Dynamics of Christian Worship series, John D. Rempel
offers a vision for this kind of transformative worship. A
theologian and minister in the Mennonite Church, Rempel considers
the role of the sacraments and ritual within the Free Church
tradition. While the Free Churches rightly sought to cleanse the
church of the abuses of sacramentalism, in that process they also
set aside some of the church's historic practices and the theology
behind them, which ultimately impoverished their worship. In
response to this liturgically thin space, Rempel appeals to the
incarnation of Christ, whose taking on of flesh can help us
perceive the sacramental nature of our faith and worship. By
embracing life-giving and peacemaking practices, the worship of not
only the Free Church tradition but of the whole body of Christ
might be transformed and become enchanted once again. The Dynamics
of Christian Worship series draws from a wide range of worshiping
contexts and denominational backgrounds to unpack the many dynamics
of Christian worship-including prayer, reading the Bible,
preaching, baptism, the Lord's Supper, music, visual art,
architecture, and more-to deepen both the theology and practice of
Christian worship for the life of the church.
Born into one of the wealthiest families in Philadelphia and raised
and educated in that vital center of eighteenth-century American
Quakerism, Anne Emlen Mifflin was a progressive force in early
America. This detailed and engaging biography, which features
Anne's collected writings and selected correspondence, revives her
legacy. Anne grew up directly across the street from the
Pennsylvania statehouse, where the Continental Congress was leading
the War of Independence. A Quaker minister whose busy pen, agile
mind, and untiring moral energy produced an extensive corpus of
writings, Anne was an ardent abolitionist and social reformer
decades before the establishment of women's anti-slavery societies.
And at a time when most Americans never ventured beyond their own
village, hamlet, or farm, Anne journeyed thousands of miles. She
traveled to settlements of Friends on the frontier and met with
Native Americans in the rough country of northwestern Pennsylvania,
New York, and Canada. Our Beloved Friend provides a unique window
onto the lives of Quakers during the pre-Revolutionary era, the
establishment of the New Republic, and the War of 1812.
Quakerism has long fascinated historians and religious scholars,
and Richard Allen's examination of the community's rise and fall in
Wales holds a wealth of new insights. The prominent role played by
women, the resilience of Quakers in the face of a variety of forms
of official persecution, the ways that education, careers, and
marriage were determined by a strict code of conduct, and the
reasons for Quakerism's decline all come under consideration here.
As the first scholarly analysis of Welsh Quakers, this book
represents an important new contribution to our knowledge of the
movement.
William Penn is justly famous for his part in the political
development of colonial America. Yet he was also one of the leading
Quaker theologians of the seventeenth century and the most
important translator of Quaker religious thought into social and
political reality, and his life and works cannot be fully
understood without a knowledge of his religious hopes and ideals.
Melvin Endy goes beyond the political histories, biographies, and
histories of Quakerism to provide a comprehensive account of Penn's
religious thought, its influence on his political thought and
activity, and the significance of his life and thought to the
Quaker movement. His assessment of Penn's place in the Quaker
movement and his discussion of Penn's thought in relation to
Puritan, Spiritualist. Anglican, and pre-Enlightenment developments
has led to an understanding of Quakerism that differs from the
recent tendency to stress strongly its Puritan origins and
affinities. Because of the revisionist nature of this
interpretation and the author's conviction that early Quaker
thought has never been adequately related to its intellectual
milieu, this study of Penn has been developed into a vehicle for a
new analysis of aspects of early Quaker thought. Finally, the
Pennsylvania venture is examined and assessed as a laboratory in
which the vision of a society run according to the principles of a
spiritual religion was put to the test. Originally published in
1973. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books
while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase
access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of
books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in
1905.
Elizabeth Fry was one of the nineteenth century's most
extraordinary women. Born the daughter of a Quaker banker, she was
eighteen when she commandeered a laundry room to begin her own
school. At twenty, she wed Joseph Fry and, over their marriage,
they had eleven children. But a charitable visit to Newgate Prison
would change the course of her life, and of history, forever.
Unable to ignore the plight of the female convicts before her, she
determined to do everything in her power to right the injustices
they faced... By her death, Elizabeth was famous amongst royalty,
parliament and women on the street alike; respected by Queen
Victoria; supporter to William Wilberforce; and influence on
Florence Nightingale. This biography, told with verve and pace, and
interwoven with extracts from Elizabeth's private diaries, will
inspire and move you with the turn of a page.
Here is the perfect introductory guide to the history and ideas of
the Quakers, one of the world's most fascinating and enigmatic
religious groups. Emerging in England in the 1650s as a radical
sect challenging the status quo, the Quakers are now best known for
their anti-slavery activities, their principled stance against war,
and their pioneering work in penal reform. Famous Quakers include
Thomas Paine, Walt Whitman, Lucretia Mott, Herbert Hoover, James
Dean, Judi Dench, and A.S. Byatt. And while the group still
maintains a distinctive worship method to achieve a direct
encounter with God, which has been at the heart of the movement
since its beginning, Quakers today are highly diverse: some
practice a protestant evangelicalism, others are no longer
Christian. In this generously illustrated book, Pink Dandelion, the
leading expert on Quaker Studies, draws on the latest scholarship
to chart the history of the sect and its present-day diversity
around the world, exploring its unique approach to worship, belief,
theology and language, and ecumenism. It concludes by placing the
Quakers in the wider religious picture and predicting its future.
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An inspiring and enlightening introduction to Quakerism, the second
title in the Yale University Press "The Spirit of . . ."series Who
are the Quakers, what do they believe, and what do they practice?
The Religious Society of Friends-also known as Quakers--believes
that everyone can have a direct experience of God. Quakers express
this in a unique form of worship that inspires them to work for
change in themselves and in the world. In The Spirit of the
Quakers, Geoffrey Durham, himself a Friend, explains Quakerism
through quotations from writings that cover 350 years, from the
beginnings of the movement to the present day. Peace and equality
are major themes in the book, but readers will also find
thought-provoking passages on the importance of action for social
change, the primacy of truth, the value of simplicity, the need for
a sense of community, and much more. The quoted texts convey a
powerful religious impulse, courage in the face of persecution, the
warmth of human relationships, and dedicated perseverance in
promoting just causes. The extended quotations have been carefully
selected from well-known Quakers such as George Fox, William Penn,
John Greenleaf Whittier, Elizabeth Fry and John Woolman, as well as
many contemporary Friends. Together with Geoffrey Durham's
enlightening and sympathetic introductions to the texts, the
extracts from these writers form an engaging, often moving guide to
this accessible and open-hearted religious faith.
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