British Quakerism, 1860-1920 The Transformation of a Religious Community

Name: British Quakerism, 1860-1920 The Transformation of a Religious Community
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ISBN: 9780198270355

ISBN-10: 0198270356

ISBN-13: 9780198270355

Edition: 2001

Authors: Thomas C. Kennedy

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Professor Kennedy's book chronicles the metamorphosis of the British Society of Friends from a tiny, self-isolated body of peculiar people into a theologically liberal, spiritually vital association of activists. Defined by a strong social commitment and enduring pacifist ethic British Quakers assumed an importance in society out of all proportion to their minuscule numbers. This transformation was, first and foremost, the product of a spiritual and intellectual struggle among Quaker factions-evangelical, conservative, and liberal-seeking to delineate the future path of their religious Society. Inspired by the leadership of a remarkable band of intellectually acute, theologically…

Book details

List price: $218.50
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/6/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 496
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 1.22" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Abbreviations


Introduction



The Condition of Friends



Spiritual Rebellion



An Angry God or A Reasonable Faith?



Prophetic Vision



The New Quakerism



'Kindly Silence the Men a Bit': Women in the Society of Friends, 1860-1914



Never to Fight with Carnal Weapons



Renaissance Years, 1902-1914



'A Ghoulish Terror of Darkness'



War and the Social Order



Abiding Wounds, 1918-1920



Legacies of the Quaker Transformation


Bibliography


Index