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The Quakers
A survey of the Quaker movement from 1650 to 1987 for those seeking to understand the origins and evolution of the Society of Friends. Part Two provides biographies of those people whose lives and actions particularly shaped American Quakerism.
Quaker Crosscurrents
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The Lamb's War
A collection of essays written to honor Hugh Barbour (HB) as a person, Church leader and scholar. These essays form a whole when read together as a series of reflections on the past life and future goals of Quakerism, with attention to themes from the concept of the Lamb's War. Contents: A Selected Bibliography of the Writings of HB; The Letters of James Nayler; William Penn, Puritan Moderate; John Woolman on the Cross; The Hicksites and the Discipline, 1827-1850; Amer. Friends in Transition, as Viewed through British Quaker Periodicals, 1865-1880; John Frederick Hanson; The English Quaker Firm; William Hull and the Quaker Search for Peace, 1908-1920; Thomas Kelly: A Brother Lawrence for Our Time; and The Pre-Pendle Hill Spirituality of George Fox.
That Mainwaring Affair
A novel with a most intricate and carefully unraveled plot. A naturally probable and excellently developed story and the reader will follow the fortunes of each character with unabating interest -- the interest is keen at the close of the first chapter and increases to the end.
That Mainwaring Affair
Reproduction of the original: That Mainwaring Affair by Maynard Barbour
Kingdom to Commune
American religious pacifism is usually explained in terms of its practitioners' ethical and philosophical commitments. Patricia Appelbaum argues that Protestant pacifism, which constituted the religious center of the large-scale peace movement in the United States after World War I, is best understood as a culture that developed dynamically in the broader context of American religious, historical, and social currents. Exploring piety, practice, and material religion, Appelbaum describes a surprisingly complex culture of Protestant pacifism expressed through social networks, iconography, vernacular theology, individual spiritual practice, storytelling, identity rituals, and cooperative living...
Love Your Enemies
The author examines the theological bases of just war theory and pacifism, espcially in the light of the concept of God, as that motif illuminates Chrsitian discipleship. Differences between the theory of just war and the practice of pacifism are highlighted in the overview of the history of Christian thought on the subject, and the inclusiveness of the ideal of the kingdom for pacifism is emphasized.
Quaker Aesthetics
The notion of a uniquely Quaker style in architecture, dress, and domestic interiors is a subject with which scholars have long grappled, since Quakers have traditionally held both an appreciation for high-quality workmanship and a distrust of ostentation. Early Quakers, or members of the Society of Friends, who held "plainness" or "simplicity" as a virtue, were also active consumers of fine material goods. Through an examination of some of the material possessions of Quaker families in America during the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries, the contributors to Quaker Aesthetics draw on the methods of art, social, religious, and public historians as well as folklorists to e...
