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The Quakers (Hardcover)
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The Quakers (Hardcover)
Series: Denominations in America
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From two professors of religion, a comprehensive history of the
Society of Friends in the U.S. . . . The authors are careful to
explain what Quakers believed at every stage of their development
and how they organized their lives around the religious and social
movements they fostered or fought against. The second part of this
engaging book is a biographical dictionary of Quaker leaders.
Reference Books Bulletin This volume interweaves theology, social
history, and biography in the first comprehensive history of
Quakers in America to be published in more than forty years.
Barbour and Frost treat all branches of American Quakers, tracing
the history of the denomination from 1650 to the present and
demonstrating how changes in the movement can be related to the
traditions of the Society of Friends and developments in the wider
cultural context. The text presents the lives and ideas of
prominent Quaker men and women: George Fox, William Penn, John
Woolman, Elias Hicks, Joseph John Gurtney, Rufus Jones, Henry
Cadbury, and many others. The authors show that today although a
Quaker can be fundamentalist, an evangelical, a moderate, or a
liberal, the twentieth century has been marked by attempts to
reunify and affirm a common tradition among all branches of the
denomination. After initial chapters dealing with the genesis of
Quakerism under George Fox in Puritan England, the authors turn to
an examination of the Society of Friends in colonial America. They
reveal the Friends' creative response to persecution after 1660,
the intellectual achievements of William Penn and Robert Barclay,
and the creation of early colonies in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Later chapters address the influence of Quaker pacifism and
opposition to slavery, the establishment of Quaker communities in
midwestern and western states, and the theological divisions within
the Society of Friends that characterized the movement in the
nineteenth century.
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