Quakers

Name: Quakers
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ISBN: 9780313228162

ISBN-10: 0313228167

ISBN-13: 9780313228162

Edition: 1988 (Reprint)

Authors: Hugh S. Barbour, J. Willia Frost

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This volume interweaves theology, social history, and biography in the first comprehensive history of Quakers in America to be published in more than forty years. Barbour and Frost treat all branches of American Quakers, tracing the history of the denomination from 1650 to the present and demonstrating how changes in the movement can be related to the traditions of the Society of Friends and developments in the wider cultural context. The text presents the lives and ideas of prominent Quaker men and women: George Fox, William Penn, John Woolman, Elias Hicks, Joseph John Gurtney, Rufus Jones, Henry Cadbury, and many others. The authors show that today although a Quaker can be fundamentalist,…

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List price: $83.00
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Publication date: 11/15/1988
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 421
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



The Quakers: A History of Friends in America


Introduction: The Society of Friends


The Religious Setting of the Early Friends


The Lamb's War and the Awakening of the North of England Quaker Worship and Ethics and Their Transformation, 1652-1662


The Mission to America England, 1660-1689: Persecution, Theology, and the Universalizing of Truth


The Quaker Colonies


A Tolerated Sociey of Friends


A Spiritual Existence


A Disciplined Christian Life Crisis and Reformation


The American Revolutions Quaker Migrants to Carolina and the Midwest: Eastern Philanthropists Separations


The Midcontinent in the Midcentury, 1828-1867: Gurneyites and Conservatives and Slavery West and Midwest, 1867-1902: Revivals, Holiness, Missions, and Pastors


The Liberal Transformation Suburban and College Friends: West and Midwest, 1902-1960 Creativity in Peacemaking Social Service and Social Change, 1902-1970


New Forms of Quaker Interaction, 1960-1987


A Biographical Dictionary of Former Quaker Leaders in America Abbreviations for Standard Sources and Quaker Organizations


Bibliography


Index