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Quaker Studies: An Overview

The Current State of the Field

By: C. Wess Daniels,Robynne Rogers Healey,Jon R. Kershner

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Quaker Studies: An Overview

The Current State of the Field

By: C. Wess Daniels,Robynne Rogers Healey,Jon R. Kershner

In this introductory volume to the Brill Research Perspectives series on Quaker Studies, Quaker Studies, An Overview: The Current State of the Field, C. Wess Daniels, Robynne Rogers Healey, and Jon Kershner investigate Quaker Studies, divided into the three fields of history, theology and philosophy, and sociology. With a focus on schisms, transatlantic networks, colonialism, abolition, gender and equality, and pacifism from Quaker origins onward, Healey explores the rich diversity and complexity of research and interpretation that has emerged in Quaker history. Kershner explores comparisons and divergences in contemporary Quaker theology and philosophy. Special attention is paid to Quaker biblical hermeneutics, mysticism, ethics, epistemology and Global Quakerism. Daniels looks at the sociology of Quakerism as a new field of study that has only recently begun to be explored and developed. He surveys the field of sociological work done within Quakerism from the 1960s to the present day.

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9004365079

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"To Renew the Covenant"

Religious Themes in Eighteenth-Century Quaker Abolitionism

By: Jon R. Kershner

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"To Renew the Covenant"

Religious Themes in Eighteenth-Century Quaker Abolitionism

By: Jon R. Kershner

In “To Renew the Covenant”: Religious Themes in Eighteenth-Century Quaker Abolitionism, Jon R. Kershner argues that Quakers adhered to a providential view of history, which motivated their desire to take a corporate position against slavery. Antislavery Quakers believed God’s dealings with them, for good or ill, were contingent on their faithfulness. Their history of deliverance from persecution, the liberty of conscience they experienced in the British colonies, and the ethics of the Golden Rule formed a covenantal relationship with God that challenged notions of human bondage. Kershner traces the history of abolitionist theologies from George Fox and William Edmundson in the late seventeenth century to Paul Cuffe and Benjamin Banneker in the early nineteenth century. It covers the Germantown Protest, Benjamin Lay, John Woolman, Anthony Benezet, William Dillwyn, Warner Mifflin, and others who offered religious arguments against slavery. It also surveys recent developments in Quaker antislavery studies.

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John Woolman and the Government of Christ

A Colonial Quaker's Vision for the British Atlantic World

By: Jon R. Kershner

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John Woolman and the Government of Christ

A Colonial Quaker's Vision for the British Atlantic World

By: Jon R. Kershner

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.

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John Woolman and the Government of Christ

A Colonial Quaker's Vision for the British Atlantic World

By: Jon R. Kershner

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A Colonial Quaker's Vision for the British Atlantic World

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Quaker Studies: An Overview

Quaker Studies: An Overview

"To Renew the Covenant"

"To Renew the Covenant"

John Woolman and the Government of Christ

John Woolman and the Government of Christ

John Woolman and the Government of Christ

John Woolman and the Government of Christ

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