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Author | : Vera Massey |
Publisher | : Friends United Press |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Vera Massey offers a compelling, sometimes inventive, perspective on James Nayler's ministry before and after his trial and conviction for blasphemy by the British Parliament. It's all here: Nayler's power and faith, his torment, his stormy relationship with George Fox. In this new biography of Nayler, Vera Massey adds her own sense of character and drama to draw the reader into this fertile time of Quaker history -- the friendships, the falling-outs, the sacrifices, and the courage -- of the men and women who gave birth to the Religious Society of Friends.With Sessions Book Trust
Author | : Vera Massey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 113 |
Release | : 1999-01-01 |
Genre | : Quakers |
ISBN | : 9781850722243 |
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Author | : Margery Post Abbott |
Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | : 599 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 0810868571 |
Download Historical Dictionary of the Friends (Quakers) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The modern reputation of Friends in the United States and Europe is grounded in the relief work they have conducted in the presence and aftermath of war. Friends (also known as Quakers) have coordinated the feeding and evacuation of children from war zones around the world. They have helped displaced persons without regard to politics. They have engaged in the relief of suffering in places as far-flung as Ireland, France, Germany, Ethiopia, Egypt, China, and India. Their work was acknowledged with the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1947 to the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and the Friends Service Council of Great Britain. More often, however, Quakers live, worship, and work quietly, without seeking public attention for themselves. Now, the Friends are a truly worldwide body and are recognized by their Christ-centered message of integrity and simplicity, as well as their nonviolent stance and affirmation of the belief that all people--women as well as men--may be called to the ministry. The expanded second edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Friends (Quakers) relates the history of the Friends through a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, and over 700 cross-referenced dictionary entries on concepts, significant figures, places, activities, and periods. This book is an excellent access point for scholars and students, who will find the overviews and sources for further research provided by this book to be enormously helpful.
Author | : Euan David McArthur |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 113 |
Release | : 2024-01-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004535888 |
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Scholars continue to dispute the foundations of Quakerism. James Nayler, his prophetic Bristol 'sign' of 1656, and George Fox's relation to him have been of especial interest in defining the movement's identity. Conventionally, historians and theologians have taken either a 'traditional' approach, which assesses Nayler by the standards of orthodoxy, or a 'revisionist' one, which absolves him by the standards of early Quaker relativism and Christology. This study by Euan David McArthur mediates between these positions, finding that Nayler and Fox developed an ambiguous theology, but adopted a consistent approach to Quaker performances. The latter dissuaded against performances such as Nayler's 'sign'; Nayler is argued, instead, to have diverged from other Quaker leaders following disputations between 1655 and 1656. The lessons his person and actions hold for us are concluded to be complex, but worthy of study for a wide range of historians and thinkers.
Author | : Rosemary Moore |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780271038940 |
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Moore, an independent scholar, provides an account of Quakerism from its obscure origins during the English civil wars to its transformation into an inward-turning sect. The leading figures of the Quaker movement--George Fox, James Nayler, and Margaret Fell--are portrayed, as are their interrelationships through letters and pamphlets, these documents also showing the emergence of Fox as the leading Friend. Moore follows Fox and his Quakers through 1666, the year Fox initiated reforms that began to divide the early charismatics from the introverts of the later 17th century. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Marjon Ames |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2016-08-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317100719 |
Download Margaret Fell, Letters, and the Making of Quakerism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Intensely persecuted during the English Interregnum, early Quakers left a detailed record of the suffering they endured for their faith. Margaret Fell, Letters, and the Making of Quakerism is the first book to connect the suffering experience with the communication network that drew the faithful together to create a new religious community. This study explores the ways in which early Quaker leaders, particularly Margaret Fell, helped shape a stable organization that allowed for the transition from movement to church to occur. Fell’s role was essential to this process because she developed and maintained the epistolary exchange that was the basis of the early religious community. Her efforts allowed for others to travel and spread the faith while she served as nucleus of the community’s communication network by determining how and where to share news. Memory of the early years of Quakerism were based on the letters Fell preserved. Marjon Ames analyzes not only how Fell’s efforts shaped the inchoate faith, but also how subsequent generations memorialized their founding members.
Author | : Stephen W. Angell |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2018-03-31 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1108548520 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Quakerism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Society of Friends |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John FORBES (of the Society of Friends.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1962 |
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Download The Quaker Star Under Seven Flags, 1917-1927 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Jon Pahl |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2012-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0814768954 |
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It is widely recognized that American culture is both exceptionally religious and exceptionally violent. Americans participate in religious communities in high numbers, yet American citizens also own guns at rates far beyond those of citizens in other industrialized nations. Since 9/11, United States scholars have understandably discussed religious violence in terms of terrorist acts, a focus that follows United States policy. Yet, according to Jon Pahl, to identify religious violence only with terrorism fails to address the long history of American violence rooted in religion throughout the country’s history. In essence, Americans have found ways to consider blessed some very brutal attitudes and behaviors both domestically and globally. In Empire of Sacrifice, Pahl explains how both of these distinctive features of American culture work together by exploring how constructions along the lines of age, race, and gender have operated to centralize cultural power across American civil or cultural religions in ways that don’t always appear to be "religious" at all. Pahl traces the development of these forms of systemic violence throughout American history, using evidence from popular culture, including movies such as Rebel without a Cause and Reefer Madness and works of literature such as The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and The Handmaid's Tale, to illuminate historical events. Throughout, Pahl focuses an intense light on the complex and durable interactions between religion and violence in American history, from Puritan Boston to George W. Bush’s Baghdad.