Author: Howard Haines BrintonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Friends for 300 Years
Author: Howard Haines BrintonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Friends for 300 years : the history and beliefs of the Society of Friends since George Fox started the Quaker Movement
Author: Howard H. BrintonFriends for 300 Years
Author: Howard Haines BRINTONListening To The Light
Author: Jim PymPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1407080733
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Quakers have long been respected for their simplicity, integrity, truthfulness, non violence and undestanding of the need for silence. This inspirational little book explores Quaker values and shows how - even if we are not members of the Society of Friends - we can bring Quaker practices and ideals into our everyday lives and relationships with others. Including a fascinating chapter on how to use the tools of Quakerism in a business context, there is also much helpful advice on how to slow down, still the mind and 'let the heart create for us'.
My Kingdom Is Not of This World: 300 Years of the Amish, 1683-1983
Author: Horst GerlachPublisher: Masthof Press & Bookstore
ISBN: 1601263872
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Originally printed in German in 1993, this updated and revised version has been translated into English. Lots of new photos and updated data were added to the text as Gerlach traces the beginnings of the Amish movement in Switzerland, their development and contribution to agriculture in Europe, and their spread throughout Europe as well as their eventual decline. A short portion covers the Amish in North America. This is the most comprehensive book on the Amish in Europe. (401pp. color illus. index. Masthof Press, 2013.)
The People's Blue Book. Taxation as it Is, and as it Ought to be
Author: Charles TennantPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
The People's Blue Book. Taxation as it is and as it ought to be. By C. Tennant. Second edition
Author: Quakers and Mysticism
Author: Jon R. KershnerPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030216535
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
This book examines the nearly 400-year tradition of Quaker engagements with mystical ideas and sources. It provides a fresh assessment of the way tradition and social context can shape a religious community while interplaying with historical and theological antecedents within the tradition. Quaker concepts such as “Meeting,” the “Light,” and embodied spirituality, have led Friends to develop an interior spirituality that intersects with extra-Quaker sources, such as those found in Jakob Boehme, Abū Bakr ibn Tufayl, the Continental Quietists, Kabbalah, Buddhist thought, and Luyia indigenous religion. Through time and across cultures, these and other conversations have shaped Quaker self-understanding and, so, expanded previous models of how religious ideas take root within a tradition. The thinkers engaged in this globally-focused, interdisciplinary volume include George Fox, James Nayler, Robert Barclay, Elizabeth Ashbridge, John Woolman, Hannah Whitall Smith, Rufus Jones, Inazo Nitobe, Howard Thurman, and Gideon W. H. Mweresa, among others.
Friends' Intelligencer
Author: The Oxford Handbook of Quaker Studies
Author: Stephen W. AngellPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191667374
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
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.