Quakeriana latina : Quaker texts in Latin from the 1670s / by Michael Birkel, Charlotte Northrop.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Birkel, Michael Lawrence, author.

Northrop, Charlotte, author.

Series:

Brill research perspectives.

Brill Research Perspectives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Society of Friends--Doctrines.

Society of Friends.

Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Translations into English.

Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern).

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, [2020]

Summary:

Quakeriana Latina: Quaker texts in Latin from the 1670s juxtaposes translations of texts written in Latin by arguably the finest early Quaker theologians, George Keith and Robert Barclay. A commentary provides philological, historical, and theological perspectives. The works by Keith are two substantial letters to German polymath and Christian Kabbalist, Baron Christian Knorr von Rosenroth. The chief concerns of these letters are Christian appropriation of concepts from Jewish mysticism and eschatology. In the year before Keith began this correspondence, Barclay wrote his Animadversiones , a response to an attack from the Dutch Calvinist, Nikolaus Arnold, on his Theses Theologicae . Thus, both writers illustrate how a Quaker might write to a non-Quaker, even non-British, audience, one in a persuasive tone, and the other in a more polemical mode. Together, these texts cast new light on Quakerism in the 1670s.

Contents:

Copyright page

Quakeriana Latina: Quaker Texts in Latin from the 1670s.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-44519-6

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004445192 DOI