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The Present Christ, Paul Anderson

Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology

Into the arena of everyday life the Living Christ invades. Loving, wooing, calling us to himself, He pursues us each- as the Lover seeks His beloved- until all our attempts to find meaning, love, peace, culminate in our being found by Him.

A Study Of The Views Of Major Eighteenth Century Evangelicals On Slavery And Race, With Special Reference To John Wesley, Irv A. Brendlinger

Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology

The rise of the British antislavery movement was the result of a complex interplay of a number of influences and factors. One of these factors was the resurgence of evangelical Christianity in the mid-eighteenth century. All of the eighteenth century antislavery leaders were committed churchmen ; most of them were staunch Evangelicals. It is the purpose of this study to examine selected specific attitudes and motives of the most significant antislavery leaders.

The first part of the thesis deals with William Wilberforce, John Newton , Thomas Clarkson James Ramsay, Granville Sharp, Anthony Benezet and John Wesley, exploring the following issues: …

A Theology Of Friendship, Paul N. Anderson

Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology

Excerpt: "Among the treasures which make life worth living, one stands out as the most precious and yet the most precarious. It is precious because it gives meaning to all that we do and accomplish. It is precarious because it is alive, and like all living things, without continual care and attention, it withers and dies. This treasure is friendship."

Christ, The Center, Paul N. Anderson

Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology

Excerpt: "One reason I appreciate the Quaker tradition so deeply is the way that Friends simplify all else in order to heighten the spiritual reality of the Present Christ. From the testimony of the Quaker "patriarch" (about one, even Christ Jesus, who speaks to our conditions) to the "sacramental community" (which upholds the promise that where two or three are gathered in his name, Christ is present in their midst), Friends seek to experience in the present tense what it means to live under the Power of the Resurrected Lord."