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Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Protestantism & Protestant Churches > Quakers (Religious Society of Friends)
A broad portrait of a way of life and a way of thought which is a
live option for vital, contemporary Christians. D. Elton Trueblood,
author of more than 30 books, depicts the Quaker experiment in
radical Christianity. His portrayal of early Quakers and their
lives is vital background for the impact that Quakers have had on
society for more than three hundred years.
The Cambridge Companion to Quakerism offers a fresh, up-to-date,
and accessible introduction to Quakerism. Quakerism is founded on
radical ideas and its history of constancy and change offers
fascinating insights into the nature of non-conformity. In a series
of eighteen essays written by an international team of scholars,
and commissioned especially for this volume, the Companion covers
the history of Quakerism from its origins to the present day.
Employing a range of methodologies, it features sections on the
history of Quaker faith and practice, expressions of Quaker faith,
regional studies, and emerging spiritualities. It also examines all
branches of Quakerism, including evangelical, liberal, and
conservative, as well as non-theist Quakerism and convergent Quaker
thought. This Companion will serve as an essential resource for all
interested in Quaker thought and practice.
The Quakers in America is a multifaceted history of the Religious
Society of Friends and a fascinating study of its culture and
controversies today. Lively vignettes of Conservative, Evangelical,
Friends General Conference, and Friends United meetings illuminate
basic Quaker theology and reflect the group's diversity while also
highlighting the fundamental unity within the religion. Quaker
culture encompasses a rich tradition of practice even as believers
continue to debate whether Quakerism is necessarily Christian,
where religious authority should reside, how one transmits faith to
children, and how gender and sexuality shape religious belief and
behavior. Praised for its rich insight and wide-ranging
perspective, The Quakers in America is a penetrating account of an
influential, vibrant, and often misunderstood religious sect. Known
best for their long-standing commitment to social activism,
pacifism, fair treatment for Native Americans, and equality for
women, the Quakers have influenced American thought and society far
out of proportion to their relatively small numbers. Whether in the
foreign policy arena (the American Friends Service Committee), in
education (the Friends schools), or in the arts (prominent Quakers
profiled in this book include James Turrell, Bonnie Raitt, and
James Michener), Quakers have left a lasting imprint on American
life. This multifaceted book is a concise history of the Religious
Society of Friends; an introduction to its beliefs and practices;
and a vivid picture of the culture and controversies of the Friends
today. The book opens with lively vignettes of Conservative,
Evangelical, Friends General Conference, and Friends United
meetings that illuminate basic Quaker concepts and theology and
reflect the group's diversity in the wake of the sectarian
splintering of the nineteenth century. Yet the book also examines
commonalities among American Friends that demonstrate a fundamental
unity within the religion: their commitments to worship, the
ministry of all believers, decision making based on seeking
spiritual consensus rather than voting, a simple lifestyle, and
education. Thomas Hamm shows that Quaker culture encompasses a rich
tradition of practice even as believers continue to debate a number
of central questions: Is Quakerism necessarily Christian? Where
should religious authority reside? Is the self sacred? How does one
transmit faith to children? How do gender and sexuality shape
religious belief and behavior? Hamm's analysis of these debates
reveals a vital religion that prizes both unity and diversity.
Transcendence can come in many forms. For Mary Rose O'Reilley a
year tending sheep seemed a way to seek a spirituality based not on
"climbing out of the body" but rather on existing fully in the
world, at least if she could overlook some of its earthier aspects.
The Barn at the End of the World follows O'Reilley in her
sometimes funny, sometimes moving quest. Though small in stature,
she learns to "flip" very large sheep and help them lamb. She also
visits a Buddhist monastery in France, where she studies the
practice of Mahayana Buddhism, dividing her spare time between
meditation and dreaming of French pastries.
The Quakers in America is a multifaceted history of the Religious
Society of Friends and a fascinating study of its culture and
controversies today. Lively vignettes of Conservative, Evangelical,
Friends General Conference, and Friends United meetings illuminate
basic Quaker theology and reflect the group's diversity while also
highlighting the fundamental unity within the religion. Quaker
culture encompasses a rich tradition of practice even as believers
continue to debate whether Quakerism is necessarily Christian,
where religious authority should reside, how one transmits faith to
children, and how gender and sexuality shape religious belief and
behavior. Praised for its rich insight and wide-ranging
perspective, The Quakers in America is a penetrating account of an
influential, vibrant, and often misunderstood religious sect. Known
best for their long-standing commitment to social activism,
pacifism, fair treatment for Native Americans, and equality for
women, the Quakers have influenced American thought and society far
out of proportion to their relatively small numbers. Whether in the
foreign policy arena (the American Friends Service Committee), in
education (the Friends schools), or in the arts (prominent Quakers
profiled in this book include James Turrell, Bonnie Raitt, and
James Michener), Quakers have left a lasting imprint on American
life. This multifaceted book is a concise history of the Religious
Society of Friends; an introduction to its beliefs and practices;
and a vivid picture of the culture and controversies of the Friends
today. The book opens with lively vignettes of Conservative,
Evangelical, Friends General Conference, and Friends United
meetings that illuminate basic Quaker concepts and theology and
reflect the group's diversity in the wake of the sectarian
splintering of the nineteenth century. Yet the book also examines
commonalities among American Friends that demonstrate a fundamental
unity within the religion: their commitments to worship, the
ministry of all believers, decision making based on seeking
spiritual consensus rather than voting, a simple lifestyle, and
education. Thomas Hamm shows that Quaker culture encompasses a rich
tradition of practice even as believers continue to debate a number
of central questions: Is Quakerism necessarily Christian? Where
should religious authority reside? Is the self sacred? How does one
transmit faith to children? How do gender and sexuality shape
religious belief and behavior? Hamm's analysis of these debates
reveals a vital religion that prizes both unity and diversity.
is book explores the growth of abolitionism among Quakers in
Pennsylvania and New Jersey from 1688 to 1780, providing a case
study of how groups change their moral attitudes. Dr. Soderlund
details the long battle fought by reformers like gentle John
Woolman and eccentric Benjamin Lay. The eighteenth-century Quaker
humanitarians succeeded only after they diluted their goals to
attract wider support, establishing a gradualistic, paternalistic,
and segregationist model for the later antislavery movement.
Originally published in 1985. 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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Early modern Quakers looked to their dreams to gain spiritual
insight and developed a potent system of dreamwork that acted
simultaneously as a device for gaining and retaining authority and
as a democratizing force. Night Journeys recounts how Quakers on
both sides of the Atlantic turned their sleeping experiences into
powerful stories that advanced a more inclusive--but still
imperial--vision of colonial and Revolutionary America.
Quakers did not keep their dreams to themselves. On the American
mainland, Caribbean plantations, and in the British Isles, Quakers
were competing to shape their imperial culture when they circulated
dreams beyond meetinghouse walls and influenced larger
transatlantic movements for reform.
Covering a broad time span that begins with the English civil
war and ends with the creation of the American republic, Carla
Gerona argues that dreams provided Quakers with mental maps to
influence the values of their emerging colonial society, usually,
though not exclusively, in progressive ways. Night visions, as
Quakers often termed their dreams, contributed to social and
cultural changes such as the abolition of slavery and religious
reform. Simultaneously, dreams helped Quakers define and delineate
their mission in America and the world, fostering innovative
concepts of individuality, community, nation, and empire.
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