Author: Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends (Conservative : 1854- )Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Book of Discipline of Ohio Yearly Meeting of the Friends Church
Author: Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends (Conservative : 1854- )Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
The Quakers in America
Author: Thomas D. HammPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 023150893X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
The Quakers in America is a multifaceted history of the Religious Society of Friends and a fascinating study of its culture and controversies today. Lively vignettes of Conservative, Evangelical, Friends General Conference, and Friends United meetings illuminate basic Quaker theology and reflect the group's diversity while also highlighting the fundamental unity within the religion. Quaker culture encompasses a rich tradition of practice even as believers continue to debate whether Quakerism is necessarily Christian, where religious authority should reside, how one transmits faith to children, and how gender and sexuality shape religious belief and behavior. Praised for its rich insight and wide-ranging perspective, The Quakers in America is a penetrating account of an influential, vibrant, and often misunderstood religious sect. Known best for their long-standing commitment to social activism, pacifism, fair treatment for Native Americans, and equality for women, the Quakers have influenced American thought and society far out of proportion to their relatively small numbers. Whether in the foreign policy arena (the American Friends Service Committee), in education (the Friends schools), or in the arts (prominent Quakers profiled in this book include James Turrell, Bonnie Raitt, and James Michener), Quakers have left a lasting imprint on American life. This multifaceted book is a concise history of the Religious Society of Friends; an introduction to its beliefs and practices; and a vivid picture of the culture and controversies of the Friends today. The book opens with lively vignettes of Conservative, Evangelical, Friends General Conference, and Friends United meetings that illuminate basic Quaker concepts and theology and reflect the group's diversity in the wake of the sectarian splintering of the nineteenth century. Yet the book also examines commonalities among American Friends that demonstrate a fundamental unity within the religion: their commitments to worship, the ministry of all believers, decision making based on seeking spiritual consensus rather than voting, a simple lifestyle, and education. Thomas Hamm shows that Quaker culture encompasses a rich tradition of practice even as believers continue to debate a number of central questions: Is Quakerism necessarily Christian? Where should religious authority reside? Is the self sacred? How does one transmit faith to children? How do gender and sexuality shape religious belief and behavior? Hamm's analysis of these debates reveals a vital religion that prizes both unity and diversity.
The Liturgies of Quakerism
Author: Pink DandelionPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351886541
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
The Liturgies of Quakerism explores the nature of liturgy within a form of worship based in silence. Tracing the original seventeenth century Quakers' understanding of the 'liturgy of silence', and what for them replaced the outward forms used in other parts of Christianity, this book explains how early Quaker understandings of 'time', 'history', and 'apocalyptic' led to an inward liturgical form. The practices and understanding of twenty-first century Liberal Quakers are explored, showing that these contemporary Quakers maintain the same kind of liturgical form as their ancestors and yet understand it in a very different way. Breaking new ground in the study of Quaker liturgy, this book contrasts the two periods and looks at some of the consequences for the study of liturgy in general, and Quakerism in particular. It also explores evangelical Quaker understandings of liturgy.
The Discipline of the Religious Society of Friends, of the Ohio Yearly Meeting
Author: Society of Friends. Ohio Yearly MeetingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
An Introduction to Quakerism
Author: Pink DandelionPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521841119
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
An introduction to Quaker history, theology and practice that addresses the diversity of Quakerism today.
The Friend
Author: The Quakers of Iowa
Author: Louis Thomas JonesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Iowa
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
National Union Catalog
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
The British Friend
Author: Historical and Archaeological Tracts
Author: Western Reserve Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ohio
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description