Download or read book A Journal of the Life Travels and Labours in the Work of the Ministry written by John Griffith and published by . This book was released on 1779 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Reformation of American Quakerism 1748 1783 written by Jack D. Marietta and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2007-08-28 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reformation of American Quakerism, 1748-1783 offers a detailed history of the withdrawal of the Society of Friends from mainstream America in the years between 1748 and the end of the American Revolution. Jack D. Marietta examines the causes, course, and consequences, both social and political, of the Quakers' retreat from prominent positions in civil government while at the same time developing a more distinctive and "purified" religious community. These changes amounted to a watershed in the greater history of the Society of Friends, a turning away from its engagement with the world on behalf of a Whig political philosophy and toward a role as critic and gadfly on the periphery of political society. Less conspicuously but perhaps more dramatically, the internal transformation of the Society through the strengthening of the members' commitment to a host of Quaker sectarian values—among them exogamy, "guarded" childrearing, sexual continence, honesty, simplicity, humility, and asceticism—was enforced by the reformers' stern determination that members would either conform to these mores or face expulsion from the Society. These changes resulted in the revitalization of the society and made possible the Quakers' campaign against slavery, thus distinguishing them as the first group of people in history to espouse abolition. Marietta draws on a wealth of data: over 10,000 disciplinary cases in the Society's records dating from 1682. The author's description and evaluation of the role, status, and treatment of women in the Society is sympathetic, and what emerges from his interpretation is a sensitive portrayal not only of withdrawal but of the substitution of a vision different from the one that inspired the Holy Experiment.
Download or read book A Dictionary of Books Relating to America written by Joseph Sabin and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bibliotheca Americana written by Joseph Sabin and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Bibliography 1779 1785 written by Charles Evans and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Corporation of the City of London Instituted in the Year 1824 A L written by Guildhall Library (London, England) and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Journal of the Life Travels and Labours in the Work of the Ministry of John Griffith written by John Griffith and published by . This book was released on 1779 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Journal of the Welsh Bibliographical Society written by Welsh Bibliographical Society and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes reports of the annual meetings 1911-1974
Download or read book A journal of the life travels and labours in the work of the ministry of J G written by John GRIFFITH (of the Society of Friends.) and published by . This book was released on 1779 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Quaker family in colonial America written by Jerry William Frost and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1973 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Quaker Family in Colonial America "is a book by J. William Frost.
Download or read book A Century of Printing 1764 1784 written by Charles Riché Hildeburn and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Quaker Studies written by Stephen W. Angell and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 793 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quakerism began in England in the 1650s. George Fox, credited as leading the movement, had an experience of 1647 in which he felt he could hear Christ directly and inwardly without the mediation of text or minister. Convinced of the authenticity of this experience and its universal application, Fox preached a spirituality in which potentially all were ministers, all part of a priesthood of believers, a church levelled before the leadership of God. Quakers are a fascinating religious group both in their original 'peculiarity' and in the variety of reinterpretations of the faith since. The way they have interacted with wider society is a basic but often unknown part of British and American history. This handbook charts their history and the history of their expression as a religious community. This volume provides an indispensable reference work for the study of Quakerism. It is global in its perspectives and interdisciplinary in its approach whilst offering the reader a clear narrative through the academic debates. In addition to an in-depth survey of historical readings of Quakerism, the handbook provides a treatment of the group's key theological premises and its links with wider Christian thinking. Quakerism's distinctive ecclesiastical forms and practices are analysed, and its social, economic, political, and ethical outcomes examined. Each of the 37 chapters considers broader religious, social, and cultural contexts and provides suggestions for further reading and the volume concludes with an extensive bibliography to aid further research.
Download or read book An Account of the Gospel Labours and Christian Experiences of a Faithful Minister of Christ John Churchman written by John Churchman and published by . This book was released on 1780 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Forgotten Children written by Linda A. Pollock and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983-11-24 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The history of childhood is an area so full of errors, distortion and misinterpretation that I thought it vital, if progress were to be made, to supply a clear review of the information on childhood contained in such sources as diaries and autobiographies.' Dr Pollock's statement in her Preface will startle readers who have not questioned the validity of recent theories on the evolution of childhood and the treatment of children, theories which see a movement from a situation where the concept of childhood was almost absent, and children were cruelly treated, to our present western recognition that children are different and should be treated with love and affection. Linda examines this thesis particularly through the close and careful analysis of some hundreds of English and American primary sources. Through these sources, she has been able to reconstruct, probably for the first time, a genuine picture of childhood in the past, and it is a much more humane and optimistic picture than the current stereotype. Her book contains a mass of novel and original material on child-rearing practices and the relations of parents and children, and sets this in the wider framework of developmental psychology, socio-biology and social anthropology. Forgotten Children admirably fulfils the aim of its author. In the face of this scholarly and elegant account of the continuity of parental care, few will now be able to argue for dramatic transformations in the twentieth century.
Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library 1911 1971 written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Protestant Pluralism and the New York Experience written by Richard W. Pointer and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1988-03-22 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This study will mark a turning point in the historiography of religion in colonial New York.... a book that every student of that subject must reckon with." -- Patricia Bonomi, New York University "... excellent and significantly revisionist examination... " -- American Studies International "... concise, insightful, and provocative... an important contribution that warrants the attention of all students of American religion." -- Journal of the Early Republic "... an important accomplishment... " -- Journal of American History "... Pointer has written a fine piece of church history that explores the interactions of denominations and politics in eighteenth-century New York. He has filled an important gap in the religious history of colonial America." -- American Historical Review "Pointer's study will be valuabe to those curious about the wonderful religious tapestry of colonial New York." -- Journal of Church and State "Richard Pointer should be commended for both his scholarship and his courage.... Pointer has written the most complete analysis we have of the impact and development of evangelical Protestantism in the province and state before 1800." -- New York History "... this is really an engaging piece of scholarship intended for the student of early America, but certainly useful to anyone having an interest in the origins of American pluralism and its impact on religious equality and toleration." -- History "A major new study in colonial American religious history... " -- Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
Download or read book Book Notes written by Sidney Smith Rider and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consisting of literary gossip, criticisms of books and local historical matters connected with Rhode Island.
