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Walking in the Way of Peace - Quaker Pacifism in the Seventeenth Century (Paperback)
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Walking in the Way of Peace - Quaker Pacifism in the Seventeenth Century (Paperback)
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This book investigates the historical context, meaning, and
expression of early Quaker pacifism in England and its colonies.
Weddle focuses primarily on one historical moment--King Philip's
War, which broke out in 1675 between English settlers and Indians
in New England. Among the settlers were Quakers, adherents of the
movement that had gathered by 1652 out of the religious and social
turmoil of the English Civil War. King Philip's War confronted the
New England Quakers with the practical need to define the
parameters of their peace testimony --to test their principles and
to choose how they would respond to violence. The Quaker governors
of Rhode Island, for example, had to reconcile their beliefs with
the need to provide for the common defense. Others had to reconcile
their peace principles with such concerns as seeking refuge in
garrisons, collecting taxes for war, carrying guns for self-defense
as they worked in the fields, and serving in the militia.
Indeed, Weddle has uncovered records of many Quakers engaged in or
abetting acts of violence, thus debunking the traditional
historiography of Quakers as saintly pacifists. Weddle shows that
Quaker pacifism existed as a doctrinal position before the 1660
crackdown on religious sectarians, but that it was a radical
theological position rather than a pragmatic strategy. She thus
convincingly refutes the Marxist argument that Quakers acted from
economic and political, and not religious motives. She examines in
detail how the Quakers' theology worked--how, for example, their
interpretation of certain biblical passages affected their
politics--and traces the evolution of the concept of pacifism from
a doctrine that was essentially about protecting the state of one's
own soul to one concerned with the consequences of violence to
other human beings.
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