John Woolman And The Government Of Christ

Author : Jon R. Kershner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190868086

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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 : Jon R. Kershner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 55,5 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 : Jon R. Kershner
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783030216535

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Quakers and Mysticism by Jon R. Kershner Pdf

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, Abū 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.

Author : John Woolman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1806
Category : Society of Friends
ISBN : HARVARD:AH4D2N

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The Works of John Woolman by John Woolman Pdf

Author : Gary Scott Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1613 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9798216046851

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American Religious History [3 volumes] by Gary Scott Smith Pdf

A mix of thematic essays, reference entries, and primary source documents covering the role of religion in American history and life from the colonial era to the present. Often controversial, religion has been an important force in shaping American culture. Religious convictions strongly influenced colonial and state governments as well as the United States as a new republic. Religious teachings, values, and practices deeply affected political structures and policies, economic ideology and practice, educational institutions and instruction, social norms and customs, marriage, and family life. By analyzing religion's interaction with American culture and prominent religious leaders and ideologies, this reference helps readers to better understand many fascinating, often controversial, religious leaders, ideas, events, and topics. The work is organized in three volumes devoted to particular periods. Volume one includes a chronology highlighting key events related to religion in American history and an introduction that overviews religion in America during the period covered by the volume, and roughly 10 essays that explore significant themes. These essays are followed by approximately 120 alphabetically arranged reference entries providing objective, fundamental information about topics related to religion in America. Each volume presents nearly 50 primary source documents, each introduced by a contextualizing headnote. A selected, general bibliography closes volume three.

Author : John MacArthur
Publisher : Moody Publishers
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802450954

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The Christian and Government by John MacArthur Pdf

Author : Jon R. Kershner
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004388833

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"To Renew the Covenant" by Jon R. Kershner Pdf

In “To Renew the Covenant”: Religious Themes in Eighteenth-Century Quaker Abolitionism, Jon R. Kershner argues that antislavery Quakers believed they were part of a covenant with God, which motivated their desire to take a corporate position against slavery.

Author : Gary B. Nash
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812294361

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Warner Mifflin by Gary B. Nash Pdf

Warner Mifflin—energetic, uncompromising, and reviled—was the key figure connecting the abolitionist movements before and after the American Revolution. A descendant of one of the pioneering families of William Penn's "Holy Experiment," Mifflin upheld the Quaker pacifist doctrine, carrying the peace testimony to Generals Howe and Washington across the blood-soaked Germantown battlefield and traveling several thousand miles by horse up and down the Atlantic seaboard to stiffen the spines of the beleaguered Quakers, harried and exiled for their neutrality during the war for independence. Mifflin was also a pioneer of slave reparations, championing the radical idea that after their liberation, Africans in America were entitled to cash payments and land or shared crop arrangements. Preaching "restitution," Mifflin led the way in making Kent County, Delaware, a center of reparationist doctrine. After the war, Mifflin became the premier legislative lobbyist of his generation, introducing methods of reaching state and national legislators to promote antislavery action. Detesting his repeated exercise of the right of petition and hating his argument that an all-seeing and affronted God would punish Americans for "national sins," many Southerners believed Mifflin was the most dangerous man in America—"a meddling fanatic" who stirred the embers of sectionalism after the ratification of the Constitution of 1787. Yet he inspired those who believed that the United States had betrayed its founding principles of natural and inalienable rights by allowing the cancer of slavery and the dispossession of Indian lands to continue in the 1790s. Writing in beautiful prose and marshaling fascinating evidence, Gary B. Nash constructs a convincing case that Mifflin belongs in the Quaker antislavery pantheon with William Southeby, Benjamin Lay, John Woolman, and Anthony Benezet.

Author : Maurice Jackson,Susan Kozel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317272793

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Quakers and Their Allies in the Abolitionist Cause, 1754-1808 by Maurice Jackson,Susan Kozel Pdf

This volume explores the significant connections between the Quaker community and the abolitionist cause in America. The case studies that make up the collection mainly focus on the greater Philadelphia area, a hotbed of the abolitionist movement and the location of the first American abolition society founded in 1775. Despite the importance of Quakers to the abolitionist movement, their significance has been largely overlooked in the existing historiography. These studies will be of interest to scholars of slavery and abolition, religious history, Atlantic studies and American social and political history.

Author : John Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Latter Day Saint churches
ISBN : PRNC:32101074889450

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The Government of God by John Taylor Pdf

Author : Cornelis Van Dam
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781630876050

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God and Government by Cornelis Van Dam Pdf

Ours is a time of rapid cultural change with new economic challenges. People look to their governments for leadership and solutions. But what can and should government do to meet the difficulties that beset a nation? What can citizens expect from their elected representatives? What is reasonable? And what should citizens do? What are their responsibilities? This book addresses such fundamental issues through the eyes of Scripture and against the backdrop of North America's dual heritage of Christianity and humanism. Government, politics, and the Bible do not seem like a good mix. But as this book aims to show, the Bible has much wisdom to teach us about the place and role of government and its citizens. Biblical principles work because God knows how his world and his servant governments are supposed to function. After all, he ordained the governing authorities, and the principles enunciated in his Word are timeless and remain practical. This book introduces fundamental biblical principles that apply to government and politics. The intent is to inform and to motivate the reader to get involved where possible in the political processes of the day. Our legislators need the input and help from their knowledgable Christian constituents.

Author : John Woolman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1837
Category : Conduct of life
ISBN : HARVARD:HNHBVS

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A Journal of the Life, Gospel Labours, and Christian Experiences, of that Faithful Minister of Jesus Christ, John Woolman by John Woolman Pdf

Author : Paul W. Syltie
Publisher : Virtualbookworm Publishing
Page : 709 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781589397118

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Understanding God's Government by Paul W. Syltie Pdf

"Understanding God's Government" dares to explore the nature of government at all levels - its pyramidal, hierarchical structure - within civil, religious, business, military, and social spheres, and then dissect the motivations behind their leaders. It is discovered that fear is usually the prime motivator that leaders use to gain and maintain control. The Creator's intended form of government for mankind, however, is a brotherhood based upon lateral relationships of love and concern for one's fellow man. The author delves into Biblical and secular sources to elucidate the nature of today's governments, elements of Godly government, ideal government within the ecclesia, forms of government that work, and their consequences. Additional articles are included, by former presidential candidate Harry Browne, Herbert W. Armstrong, James Lloyd, Norman Edwards, and the author. Learn why future government holds so much promise within this war-torn, unstable world.

Author : Phil Fernandes,Eric Purcell,Rorri Wiesinger
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2003-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781591602682

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God, Government, and the Road to Tyranny by Phil Fernandes,Eric Purcell,Rorri Wiesinger Pdf

Author : John Taylor
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1019373385

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The Government Of God by John Taylor Pdf

A landmark work of political and theological philosophy, written by an early leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Taylor's book draws on principles of divine revelation and human agency to construct a vision of government that is both just and merciful, and remains a touchstone for Mormon theorists and scholars. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.