Holiness The Soul Of Quakerism

Author : Carole Dale Spencer
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781556358098

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Holiness: The Soul of Quakerism by Carole Dale Spencer Pdf

No single word conjures up religion, spirituality, or the sacred more than holiness. Yet its meaning in Christian theology, and application in Christian practice, has been greatly misunderstood. Few Quakers today of any persuasion would recognize the mystical depth of meaning the concept had for Quakers down through the centuries. Holiness: The Soul of Quakerism recovers the essential place of holiness theology in three centuries of Quaker history. It explores how Quaker spirituality was shaped in its inception by the experience of union with God, otherwise known in the Christian tradition as perfection, and examines selected figures from Quaker history who represent different emphases of holiness in the context of their time and culture.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Society of Friends
ISBN : OCLC:913886355

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Holiness by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rhiannon Grant
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004379145

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British Quakers and Religious Language by Rhiannon Grant Pdf

In British Quakers and Religious Language, Rhiannon Grant explores the ways in which this community discusses the Divine. She identifies characteristic patterns of language use and uncovers the philosophical and theological claims that support these patterns.

Author : Joanna Dales
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004438415

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The Quaker Renaissance and Liberal Quakerism in Britain, 1895-1930 by Joanna Dales Pdf

Many Quakers who reached maturity towards the end of the nineteenth century found that their parents’ religion had lost its connection with reality. New discoveries in science and biblical research called for new approaches to Christian faith. Evangelical beliefs dominant among nineteenth-century Quakers were now found wanting, especially those emphasising the supreme authority of the Bible and doctrines of atonement, whereby the wrath of God is appeased through the blood of Christ. Liberal Quakers sought a renewed sense of reality in their faith through recovering the vision of the first Quakers with their sense of the Light of God within each person. They also borrowed from mainstream liberal theology new attitudes to God, nature and service to society. The ensuing Quaker Renaissance found its voice at the Manchester Conference of 1895, and the educational initiatives which followed gave to British Quakerism an active faith fit for the testing reality of the twentieth century.

Author : Robynne Rogers Healey
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780271089652

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Quakerism in the Atlantic World, 1690–1830 by Robynne Rogers Healey Pdf

This third installment in the New History of Quakerism series is a comprehensive assessment of transatlantic Quakerism across the long eighteenth century, a period during which Quakers became increasingly sectarian even as they expanded their engagement with politics, trade, industry, and science. The contributors to this volume interrogate and deconstruct this paradox, complicating traditional interpretations of what has been termed “Quietist Quakerism.” Examining the period following the Toleration Act in England of 1689 through the Hicksite-Orthodox Separation in North America, this work situates Quakers in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world. Three thematic sections—exploring unique Quaker testimonies and practices; tensions between Quakerism in community and Quakerism in the world; and expressions of Quakerism around the Atlantic world—broaden geographic understandings of the Quaker Atlantic experience to determine how local events shaped expressions of Quakerism. The authors challenge oversimplified interpretations of Quaker practices and reveal a complex Quaker world, one in which prescription and practice were more often negotiated than dictated, even after the mid-eighteenth-century “reformation” and tightening of the Discipline on both sides of the Atlantic. Accessible and well-researched, Quakerism in the Atlantic World, 1690-1830, provides fresh insights and raises new questions about an understudied period of Quaker history. In addition to the editor, the contributors to this volume include Richard C. Allen, Erin Bell, Erica Canela, Elizabeth Cazden, Andrew Fincham, Sydney Harker, Rosalind Johnson, Emma Lapsansky-Werner, Jon Mitchell, and Geoffrey Plank.

Author : Stephen W. Angell,Pink Dandelion,David Harrington Watt
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780271095769

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The Creation of Modern Quaker Diversity, 1830–1937 by Stephen W. Angell,Pink Dandelion,David Harrington Watt Pdf

The period from 1830 to 1937 was transformative for modern Quakerism. Practitioners made significant contributions to world culture, from their heavy involvement in the abolitionist and women’s rights movements and creation of thriving communities of Friends in the Global South to the large-scale post–World War I humanitarian relief efforts of the American Friends Service Committee and Friends Service Council in Britain. The Creation of Modern Quaker Diversity, 1830–1937 explores these developments and the impact they had on the Quaker religion and on the broader world. Chapters examine the changes taking place within the denomination at the time, including separations, particularly in the United States, that resulted in the establishment of distinct branches, and a series of all-Quaker conferences in the early twentieth century that set the agenda for Quakerism. Written by the leading experts in the field, this engaging narrative and penetrating analysis is the authoritative account of this period of Quaker history. It will appeal to scholars and lay Quaker readers alike and is an essential volume for meeting libraries. In addition to the editors, the contributors include Joanna Clare Dales, Richard Kent Evans, Douglas Gwyn, Thomas D. Hamm, Robynne Rogers Healey, Julie L. Holcomb, Sylvester A. Johnson, Stephanie Midori Komashin, Emma Jones Lapsansky, Isaac Barnes May, Nicola Sleapwood, Carole Dale Spencer, and Randall L. Taylor.

Author : Derek Brown
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004535909

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American Christian Programmed Quaker Ecclesiology by Derek Brown Pdf

In American Christian Programmed Quaker Ecclesiology, Derek Brown argues that American Christian Programmed Quakerism has inherited a practical and pragmatic ecclesiology at the expense of an ontological understanding of the church. Inspired by the work of Gerben Heitink, Brown proposes a normative, deductive, ontological ecclesiology based on the biblical concept of koinonia, which would act as a 'foundational' model for future confessional, empirical, and practical efforts. To help form the proposed ecclesiology, Brown explores the ecclesiological views of George Fox and Robert Barclay, the adoption of the pastoral system, and the emergence of the Evangelical Friends Church. The ecclesiological writings of Miroslav Volf, Wolfhart Pannenberg, Hans Küng, Jennifer Buck, and C. Wess Daniels are also surveyed.

Author : Stephen Ward Angell,Stephen W. Angell,Pink Dandelion
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 665 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199608676

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The Oxford Handbook of Quaker Studies by Stephen Ward Angell,Stephen W. Angell,Pink Dandelion Pdf

This handbook provides an in-depth survey of historical readings of Quakerism; a treatment of its key theological premises and its links with wider Christian thinking; an analysis of its distinctive ecclesiastical forms and practices; chapters on its social, economic, political, and ethical outcomes; as well as an extensive bibliography.

Author : Jonathan Garb
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-23
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780226295800

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Yearnings of the Soul by Jonathan Garb Pdf

Jonathan Garb's "Yearnings of the Soul: Psychological Thought in Modern Kabbalah" is an original, path-breaking study of the renderings of the "heart and soul" in the works of major, minor, and obscure but important figures of modern Kabbalah. Garb has unearthed a treasure-trove of neglected figures and texts, bringing into dialogue their views on heart and soul with those found in other religious and secular authorities. There is no other study that comes close to the territory Garb covers or, for that matter, provides the historical and cultural context necessary for understanding the rise of such psychological renderings in the works of the modern Kabbalists. His analysis shows that any attempt to essentialize the multiple and varied understandings of heart and soul in Jewish mysticism is mistaken. Analyzing text and figure in context on a case-by-case basis Garb is able to provide comparison without being reductive. This is an invaluable contribution to the discipline that cements Garb as the leading scholar of modern Kabbalah.

Author : Stephen Ward Angell,Pink Dandelion
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781107136601

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The Cambridge Companion to Quakerism by Stephen Ward Angell,Pink Dandelion Pdf

A vigorous, innovative, compelling introduction to Quakers, fully global in reach, and utilizing the best Quaker scholars from every continent.

Author : Michael Birkel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004373747

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Quakers Reading Mystics by Michael Birkel Pdf

This study explores the reception of mystical texts among Quakers, looking at Robert Barclay and John Cassian, Sarah L. Grubb and Jeanne Guyon, Caroline Stephen and Johannes Tauler, Rufus Jones and Jacob Boehme, and Teresina Havens and Buddhist texts.

Author : C. Wess Daniels,Rhiannon Grant
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 631 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780429632358

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The Quaker World by C. Wess Daniels,Rhiannon Grant Pdf

The Quaker World is an outstanding, comprehensive and lively introduction to this complex Christian denomination. Exploring the global reach of the Quaker community, the book begins with a discussion of the living community, as it is now, in all its diversity and complexity. The book covers well-known areas of Quaker development, such as the formation of Liberal Quakerism in North America, alongside topics which have received much less scholarly attention in the past, such as the history of Quakers in Bolivia and the spread of Quakerism in Western Kenya. It includes over sixty chapters by a distinguished international and interdisciplinary team of contributors and is organised into three clear parts: Global Quakerism Spirituality Embodiment Within these sections, key themes are examined, including global Quaker activity, significant Quaker movements, biographies of key religious figures, important organisations, pacifism, politics, the abolition of slavery, education, industry, human rights, racism, refugees, gender, disability, sexuality and environmentalism. The Quaker World provides an authoritative and accessible source of information on all topics important to Quaker Studies. As such, it is essential reading for students studying world religions, Christianity and comparative religion, and it will also be of interest to those in related fields such as sociology, political science, anthropology and ethics.

Author : George Fox,T. H. S. Wallace
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07
Category : Quakers
ISBN : 0970137540

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Have Salt in Yourselves by George Fox,T. H. S. Wallace Pdf

This small book, Have Salt in Yourself, provides both new and veteran Christians great good counsel, so that they may grow strong in grace. Its advice comes from George Fox, whose spirit directed ministry from 1640 and 1691 led to the founding of Religious Society of Friends [of Christ], better known as Quakers. The book's subtitle, A Book of QuakerPsalms for Those Called to Holiness and Chastity, emphasizes that our work as followers of Jesus Christ, is not only to be born into New Life, but to grow in holiness and chaste love, in purity of mind, body, and soul.

Author : Jon R. Kershner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190868093

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John Woolman and the Government of Christ by Jon R. Kershner Pdf

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 apocalyptic-centered 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.

Author : Stephen Ward Angell,Stephen W. Angell,Pink Dandelion
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781107050525

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Early Quakers and their Theological Thought by Stephen Ward Angell,Stephen W. Angell,Pink Dandelion Pdf

This comprehensive theological analysis of leading early Quakers' work, offers fresh insights into what they were really saying.