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Book Review Of At Peace And Unafraid: Public Order, Security, And The Wisdom Of The Cross, Ron Mock
Book Review Of At Peace And Unafraid: Public Order, Security, And The Wisdom Of The Cross, Ron Mock
Faculty Publications - Department of History and Politics
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John Wesley And Slavery: Myth And Reality, Irv Brendlinger
John Wesley And Slavery: Myth And Reality, Irv Brendlinger
Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology
1. Was Wesley opposed to the institution of slavery? Or is that merely myth, because he only opposed the horrors of the slave trade? The reason for this question is that many eighteenth-century persons were greatly opposed to the slave trade, but had no moral difficulty with the institution of slavery.
2. If he opposed slavery, was it the abuses that troubled him, or did he reject the philosophical underpinnings of the institution itself?
3. What is truth and what is myth about Wesley's contemporaries, such as his friend John Newton, author of Amazing Grace, and known as the "converted …
E Pluribus Unum? Quaker Approaches To Plurality And Unity In Pennsylvania 1682-1764, Stephen W. Angell
E Pluribus Unum? Quaker Approaches To Plurality And Unity In Pennsylvania 1682-1764, Stephen W. Angell
Quaker Religious Thought
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Aspects Of Historicity In The Gospel Of John: Implications For Investigations Of Jesus And Archaeology, Paul N. Anderson
Aspects Of Historicity In The Gospel Of John: Implications For Investigations Of Jesus And Archaeology, Paul N. Anderson
Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology
Of the many tensions characterizing the Gospel of John, one of its perplexities most needing to be addressed critically is the set of issues related to aspects of historicity.1 On one hand, John is the most spiritual, theological, and symbolic of the canonical Gospels, leading scholars in recent decades to take seriously the literary features of the work. On the other hand, there is more archaeological, topographical, and apparently historical material in John than in any other Gospel, or even in all three combined.
John Wesley In Context: His Century, Relationships And Spiritual Journey, Irv A. Brendlinger
John Wesley In Context: His Century, Relationships And Spiritual Journey, Irv A. Brendlinger
Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology
"...For the purpose of this study, we shall briefly view [John Wesley] in the context of his age, and note some relationships and revisit several formative experiences of his life which bear directly on his eventual interest in the problem of human bondage"