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This book examines the nearly 400-year tradition of Quaker
engagements with mystical ideas and sources. It provides a fresh
assessment of the way tradition and social context can shape a
religious community while interplaying with historical and
theological antecedents within the tradition. Quaker concepts such
as "Meeting," the "Light," and embodied spirituality, have led
Friends to develop an interior spirituality that intersects with
extra-Quaker sources, such as those found in Jakob Boehme, Abu Bakr
ibn Tufayl, the Continental Quietists, Kabbalah, Buddhist thought,
and Luyia indigenous religion. Through time and across cultures,
these and other conversations have shaped Quaker self-understanding
and, so, expanded previous models of how religious ideas take root
within a tradition. The thinkers engaged in this globally-focused,
interdisciplinary volume include George Fox, James Nayler, Robert
Barclay, Elizabeth Ashbridge, John Woolman, Hannah Whitall Smith,
Rufus Jones, Inazo Nitobe, Howard Thurman, and Gideon W. H.
Mweresa, among others.
This book examines the nearly 400-year tradition of Quaker
engagements with mystical ideas and sources. It provides a fresh
assessment of the way tradition and social context can shape a
religious community while interplaying with historical and
theological antecedents within the tradition. Quaker concepts such
as "Meeting," the "Light," and embodied spirituality, have led
Friends to develop an interior spirituality that intersects with
extra-Quaker sources, such as those found in Jakob Boehme, Abu Bakr
ibn Tufayl, the Continental Quietists, Kabbalah, Buddhist thought,
and Luyia indigenous religion. Through time and across cultures,
these and other conversations have shaped Quaker self-understanding
and, so, expanded previous models of how religious ideas take root
within a tradition. The thinkers engaged in this globally-focused,
interdisciplinary volume include George Fox, James Nayler, Robert
Barclay, Elizabeth Ashbridge, John Woolman, Hannah Whitall Smith,
Rufus Jones, Inazo Nitobe, Howard Thurman, and Gideon W. H.
Mweresa, among others.
In 1758, a Quaker tailor and sometime shopkeeper and school teacher
stood up in a Quaker meeting and declared that the time had come
for Friends to reject the practice of slavery. That man was John
Woolman, and that moment was a significant step, among many, toward
the abolition of slavery in the United States. Woolman's
antislavery position was only one essential piece of his
comprehensive theological vision for colonial American society.
Drawing on Woolman's entire body of writing, Jon R. Kershner
reveals that the theological and spiritual underpinnings of
Woolman's alternative vision for the British Atlantic world were
nothing less than a direct, spiritual christocracy on earth, what
Woolman referred to as "the Government of Christ." Kershner argues
that Woolman's theology is best understood as apocalypticcentered
on a supernatural revelation of Christ's immediate presence
governing all aspects of human affairs, and envisaging the
impending victory of God's reign over apostasy. John Woolman and
the Government of Christ explores the theological reasoning behind
Woolman's critique of the burgeoning trans-Atlantic economy,
slavery, and British imperial conflicts, and fundamentally
reinterprets 18th-century Quakerism by demonstrating the continuing
influence of early Quaker apocalypticism.
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