The creation of Quaker theory : insider perspectives / edited by Pink Dandelion.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dandelion, Pink.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Society of Friends.

Physical Description:

xiii, 272 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2004]

Contents:

Part I Quaker Historiography

1 George Fox and the Politics of Late Nineteenth-century Quaker Historiography / Thomas D. Hamm 11

2 Sixty Years in Early Quaker History / Hugh Barbour 19

3 The End of (Quaker) History? Some Reflections on the Process / John Punshon 32

Part II Theories of Early Quakerism

4 The Inevitability of Quaker Success? / Rosemary Moore 48

5 Was Seventeenth-century Quaker Christology Homogeneous? / Richard G. Bailey 61

6 'Go North!' The Journey towards First-generation Friends and their Prophecy of Celestial Flesh / Michele Lise Tarter 83

7 George Fox and Christian Gnosis / Glen D. Reynolds 99

Part III Early Friends and Beyond

8 Apocalypse Now and Then: Reading Early Friends in the Belly of the Beast / Douglas Gwyn 127

9 Holiness: the Quaker Way of Perfection / Carole D. Spencer 149

10 Theoretical Reflections of a Skeptic about Theory / Thomas D. Hamm 172

11 Some Reflections on an Ecumenical Pilgrimage / Martin Davie 188

12 Taming Anarchy: Quaker Alternate Ordering and 'Otherness' / Gay Pilgrim 206

Conclusion: the Nature of Quaker Studies 226.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-261) and index.

ISBN:

0754631583

OCLC:

51868175