Author: Caroline Emelia StephenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Quaker Strongholds
Author: Caroline Emelia StephenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Quaker Strongholds
Author: Caroline Emelia StephenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Quaker Strongholds
Author: Caroline Emelia StephenPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
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"Quaker Strongholds" by Caroline Emelia Stephen delves into the sometimes mysterious world of the Quaker Christian sect. Quakers are a group that many know and might even be able to recognize, but not much is truly known about them. Stephen shares interesting insights that show how this religious group functioned in the late 19th century.
Quaker Strongholds
Author: Caroline Emelia StephenPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387080786
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Quaker Strongholds
Author: Caroline Emelia StephenPublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230435091
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 46
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI. OUR CALLING. I HAVE endeavoured to explain what are those principles and practices into which we as a body have been led through what we believe to be obedience to the Spirit of Truth. I know that in some respects we seem to our fellow Christians to have mistaken the voice of our Guide, and to be, through ignorance perhaps, but yet lamentably, excluding ourselves from the most precious privileges, if not consciously disregarding the most sacred injunctions. It is a very solemn question upon which we thus join issue with almost all the Churches of Christendom;--What is, in fact, essential Christianity? "By their fruits ye shall know them." It would ill become me to attempt any estimate of the fruitfulness of that branch of the Christian Church which I have joined as compared with the branch of it in which I was brought up. I have been occupied throughout with our ideal, not with the degree of our fulfilment or failure to fulfil it. I feel bound, however, to say that I cannot reconcile the fact of the signs of life and spiritual energy which I find within as well as without the Society with the idea that either branch of the Church is really cut off from the root of the living Vine. Does it follow that our peculiar principles and practices -are of no consequence? I cannot myself believe that this is a legitimate conclusion from the admitted fact that undeniably holy and Christian lives are led within as well as without our borders. That fact does, I think, show at least that everything does not depend either upon the observance or the disuse of outward ordinances--it shows that either course may be pursued in good faith and without destruction to the Christian life; but it is not inconsistent with the belief that results of...
Quaker Strongholds
Author: Caroline E. StephenPublisher:
ISBN: 9783337442729
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Quaker strongholds, by Caroline Emelia Stephen
Author: Caroline Emelia StephenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Spirit of the Quakers
Author: Geoffrey DurhamPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300175019
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 155
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Who are the Quakers, what do they believe, and what do they practice? The Religious Society of Friends--also known as Quakers---believes that everyone can have a direct experience of God. Quakers express this in a unique form of worship that inspires them to work for change in themselves and in the world. In "The Spirit of the Quakers," Geoffrey Durham, himself a Friend, explains Quakerism through quotations from writings that cover 350 years, from the beginnings of the movement to the present day.Peace and equality are major themes in the book, but readers will also find thought-provoking passages on the importance of action for social change, the primacy of truth, the value of simplicity, the need for a sense of community, and much more. The quoted texts convey a powerful religious impulse, courage in the face of persecution, the warmth of human relationships, and dedicated perseverance in promoting just causes. The extended quotations have been carefully selected from well-known Quakers such as George Fox, William Penn, John Greenleaf Whittier, Elizabeth Fry and John Woolman, as well as many contemporary Friends. Together with Geoffrey Durham's enlightening and sympathetic introductions to the texts, the extracts from these writers form an engaging, often moving guide to this accessible and open-hearted religious faith.
British Quakerism, 1860-1920
Author: Thomas C. KennedyPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780198270355
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Professor Kennedy's book chronicles the metamorphosis of the British Society of Friends from a tiny, self-isolated body of peculiar people into a theologically liberal, spiritually vital association of activists. Defined by a strong social commitment and enduring pacifist ethic British Quakersassumed an importance in society out of all proportion to their minuscule numbers. This transformation was, first and foremost, the product of a spiritual and intellectual struggle among Quaker factions-evangelical, conservative, and liberal-seeking to delineate the future path of their religiousSociety. Inspired by the leadership of a remarkable band of intellectually acute, theologically progressive, and spiritually committed men and women, London Yearly Meeting was both reformed and revitalised during the so-called Quaker Renaissance. Simultaneously embracing advanced modern ideas andreiterating their attachment to traditional Quaker principles, especially the egalitarian concept of the Inner Light of Christ and a revived peace testimony, liberal Quakers prepared the ground for their Society's dramatic confrontation with the Warrior State after 1914. Official Quaker resistance to the Great War not only fixed the image of the Society of Friends as Britain's most authentic and significant peace church, it also brought a group of talented and determined Quaker women into the front lines of the Society's struggle against war and conscription, aposition from which twentieth-century female Friends have never retreated. Quakerism emerged from the war as the religious body least tainted by spiritual compromise. Thus, when British Quakers hosted the first World Conference of All Friends in 1920, they could take satisfaction in their struggle to keep alive the voce of pacifist conscience and express renewed hope intheir enduring mission to create the Kingdom of God on earth.
The Later Periods of Quakerism
Author: Rufus Matthew JonesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Quakers
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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