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Lindman And Tarter's "A Centre Of Wonders: The Body In Early America" - Book Review, Elaine Hobby Oct 2014

Lindman And Tarter's "A Centre Of Wonders: The Body In Early America" - Book Review, Elaine Hobby

Quaker Studies

No abstract provided.


Robert Barclay's "A Catechism And Confession Of Faith: A New Edition Edited In Modern English" - Book Review, Hugh Pyper Oct 2014

Robert Barclay's "A Catechism And Confession Of Faith: A New Edition Edited In Modern English" - Book Review, Hugh Pyper

Quaker Studies

No abstract provided.


Schism As Collective Disaffiliation: A Quaker Typology, Pink Dandelion Oct 2014

Schism As Collective Disaffiliation: A Quaker Typology, Pink Dandelion

Quaker Studies

This research note builds on a study of British Quakers who have resigned their Membership in the last five years (Dandelion 2002). Quakers leave either because they are 'de-convinced' or because, in a group which places emphasis on continuing revelation, they are grieving the loss of what has passed before. A third type resigns because they feel the group is too slow to support new revelation. In these latter two cases, the disaffiliated feel left by the group. This typology is placed across the concept of the 'double-culture' to give six types of ex-Quaker. It is suggested that this extended …


Deviating From The Path Of Safety: The Rise And Fall Of A Nineteenth Century Quaker Meeting, Elizabeth O'Donnell Oct 2014

Deviating From The Path Of Safety: The Rise And Fall Of A Nineteenth Century Quaker Meeting, Elizabeth O'Donnell

Quaker Studies

This article examines the re-establishment, expansion, and subsequent decline of a Quaker community in Benfieldside, north-west county Durham, between 1839 and 1886. It shows that the presence of a leading family and economic opportunities were both key factors in drawing Friends to the area. The failure of the largest north-east joint stock bank in 1857 was largely caused by its over-lending to the Derwent Ironworks. Prominent members of the Benfieldside Quaker community had interests in both concerns and were thus enmeshed in the financial scandal which ensued. An examination of the Newcastle Monthly Meeting reports, which investigated the affair, reveals …


Light Within Or Beacon Without? An Evaluation Of The Impact Of Evangelicalism On Quakers 1820-1840, Rosemary Mingins Oct 2014

Light Within Or Beacon Without? An Evaluation Of The Impact Of Evangelicalism On Quakers 1820-1840, Rosemary Mingins

Quaker Studies

This paper examines why the evangelical revival became such an important issue for the Society of Friends in the early nineteenth century. The focus is on the conflict that evangelicalism aroused between 1835 and 1840 with the Beacon controversy and the resultant challenge to the concept of the inward light. The shifting attitudes of Quakers are situated in their contemporary world, in which fundamental changes were occurring in almost every sphere. The position is taken that the wider context of economic growth and political reform provoking social action contributed to evangelicalism making inroads into Quaker belief. The close-up image compares …


'Gaining A Voice': An Interpretation Of Quaker Women's Writing 1740-1850, Sheila Wright Oct 2014

'Gaining A Voice': An Interpretation Of Quaker Women's Writing 1740-1850, Sheila Wright

Quaker Studies

The aim of this paper is to suggest way s in which Quaker women Ministers, in a period of considerable doctrinal and secular change, used their journal writings as a tool to maintain their position within the Society of Friends. Expanding on previous work on Quaker women's spiritual autobiography, it suggests that these writings were not only written for spiritual purposes but also had a temporal dimension, providing women with an authorized 'voice' through which to express their concerns. The paper explores how in these writings Quaker women represented themselves, their work and their struggles when confronted with a male …


'Vain Unsettled Fashions': The Early Durham Friends And Popular Culture C. 1660-1725, Erin Bell Oct 2014

'Vain Unsettled Fashions': The Early Durham Friends And Popular Culture C. 1660-1725, Erin Bell

Quaker Studies

Participation in popular, or worldly, culture was a moot point for the early Friends. Although they were not encouraged to do so many still took part in aspects of male or female culture, but experienced tension between Quaker and 'carnal' ideals of behaviour. Female Friends were expected to limit their clothing according to the edicts of their Yearly Meeting, although female culture treated clothing as a medium of exchange and' gifting clothing was central to female social life. This proved difficult for women such as Sarah Kirkby (d.1692) of Auckland, a fabric seller, who traded with non-Quakers and could not …


Tradition Versus Innovation: The Hat, Wilkinson-Story And Keithian Controversies, Clare J. L. Martin Oct 2014

Tradition Versus Innovation: The Hat, Wilkinson-Story And Keithian Controversies, Clare J. L. Martin

Quaker Studies

The post-Restoration period saw the development of the Society of Friends from an ill-defined religious group to a well-ordered denomination. This process of institutionalisation was marked by struggle between Friends' traditional emphasis upon the freedom of the light within to guide the individual and the need to impose some order upon the Society. The process saw perceived innovations develop into accepted traditions and is most clearly demonstrated by the Quaker controversies of this period. The 'Hat Controversy' of the 1660s shows early resistance to the innovation of some Friends exerting their authority over the consciences of others. Although this controversy …


Review Article - Recent Publications In Quaker Studies, Farah Mendlesohn Oct 2014

Review Article - Recent Publications In Quaker Studies, Farah Mendlesohn

Quaker Studies

Quaker studies is a disparate and varied field. Like many a new area of research it suffers from a lack of contact between researchers and the inability of all but a select few to make a career in the field. As a consequence, excellent work may go unnoticed and unreported because the individual author is not part of any national association or academic network or because the absence of scholarly interest in the field means that many texts are published by small presses and come to light only in the rarefied atmosphere of Friends House book shop. The mission of …


Voltaire's Convincement, Raymond Ayoub Oct 2014

Voltaire's Convincement, Raymond Ayoub

Quaker Studies

The aim of this essay is to trace the evolution of Voltaire's perspective toward Quakers and Quakerism during the course of his life. The record begins when in 1726 he was forced into exile and chose to go to England. In the course of his three-year stay there, he wrote letters to his friend-letters which were published in 1733 in English under the title 'Letters Concerning the English Nation' and in French with the title 'Lettres Philosophiques'. Four of the 25 letters are devoted to Quakerism. We endeavour to depict, through his writing, Voltaire's changing attitude toward Quakerism from one …


Bayard Rustin: An Annotated Bibliography Of Materials Relating To Rustin As A Quaker And Peace Activist, Buzz Haughton Oct 2014

Bayard Rustin: An Annotated Bibliography Of Materials Relating To Rustin As A Quaker And Peace Activist, Buzz Haughton

Quaker Studies

Although Bayard Rustin was one of the most important leaders of the American civil rights movement from the advent of its modern period in the 1950s until well into the 1980s, his name was seldom mentioned; he received comparatively little press or media attention, and others' names were usually much more readily associated with the movement than his was. His was a behind-the-scenes role that, for all its importance, never garnered Rustin the public acclaim he deserved. Rustin's homosexuality and early communist affiliation probably meant that the importance of his contribution to the civil rights and peace movements would never …


Aesthetics In Science, As Practised By Quakers In The Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries, Geoffrey Cantor Oct 2014

Aesthetics In Science, As Practised By Quakers In The Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries, Geoffrey Cantor

Quaker Studies

Drawing on examples from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it will be argued that the sciences - but particularly observational sciences such as astronomy, botany and meteorology - were highly acceptable to Quakers. Moreover, the study of nature was vested with an aesthetic that emphasised God as the Creator of nature and of order and beauty in the natural world. While many wealthy Quakers participated in these sciences, botany also provided employment for Quakers from less affiuent backgrounds. Hence a number Quakers made careers as botanical lecturers, writers, publishers and illustrators. The role of the botanical illustrator is explored to …


Sermon: "Paradise-Turned Armageddon", Sunggu Yang Oct 2014

Sermon: "Paradise-Turned Armageddon", Sunggu Yang

Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology

It was a beautiful, sunny Saturday morning some weeks ago. When I woke up and pulled up the curtain, I felt strongly that I needed to go jogging to refresh myself, at least for the sake of the beautiful weather itself. From my yet short life experience, I knew that a feeling of that kind was unusual for me since I don’t work out as much as I should. I thought there must be some good reason for that good strong compulsion for jogging, so I put on some sport clothes and started running toward a nearby State park.


Systematic Theology And Spiritual Formation: Recovering Obscured Unities, Jeannine Graham Oct 2014

Systematic Theology And Spiritual Formation: Recovering Obscured Unities, Jeannine Graham

Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology

No abstract provided.


Two Principles Toward Ecumenical Liturgy, Sunggu Yang Sep 2014

Two Principles Toward Ecumenical Liturgy, Sunggu Yang

Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology

In this essay, I want to discuss two essential principles of Christian ecumenical liturgy, especially for the Asian American church: a) the principle of other-wise liturgy and b) the principle of culturally-conscious worship.1 These two principles will escort the way we approach different Christian traditions of worship and eventually the way we design and practice ecumenical worship. I owe much to works of John McClure and Kathy Back in figuring out and applying these two principles.


Book Review: Letters And Life By Bret Lott, Melanie Springer Mock Sep 2014

Book Review: Letters And Life By Bret Lott, Melanie Springer Mock

Faculty Publications - Department of English

Excerpt: "Lott’s newly published book, Letters and Life, limns and amplifies the themes expressed in “Genesis.” Letters and Life enters into a centuries-old conversation about what it means to be an artist and a Christian, relying on what has already been written about the Christian artist to expand and deepen our notions of faith and art, showing that, like the child-narrator in “Genesis,” the artist in creation imitates God."


Reflection On Pastor Christian Führer Of The Nikolai Church In Leipzig, Roger Newell Sep 2014

Reflection On Pastor Christian Führer Of The Nikolai Church In Leipzig, Roger Newell

Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology

Pastor Christian Führer of the Nikolai Church in Leipzig, the founding organizer of the famous peace prayers in the 1980s, died on 30 June, at the age of seventy-one. Not long ago, Professor Roger Newell of George Fox University, Newberg, Oregon took a party of students to visit sites of special significance in European Church history. One of their stops was in Leipzig, about which he reported.


The Liturgical And Pastoral Lifeof The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church In The Catacombs, Marko Yaroslav Semehen Sep 2014

The Liturgical And Pastoral Lifeof The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church In The Catacombs, Marko Yaroslav Semehen

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


The Road To Legalization Of The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Andrew Sorokowski Sep 2014

The Road To Legalization Of The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Andrew Sorokowski

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


The Response Of Ukrainian Greek-Catholics To The Soviet State's Liquidation And Persecution Of Their Church: 1945-1989, Svitlana Hurkina Sep 2014

The Response Of Ukrainian Greek-Catholics To The Soviet State's Liquidation And Persecution Of Their Church: 1945-1989, Svitlana Hurkina

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


Exhibit "To The Light Of Resurrection Through The Thorns Of Catacombs”, Iryna Ivankovych Sep 2014

Exhibit "To The Light Of Resurrection Through The Thorns Of Catacombs”, Iryna Ivankovych

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


Will's "A Contemporary Theology For Ecumenical Peace" - Book Review, Paul Mojzes Sep 2014

Will's "A Contemporary Theology For Ecumenical Peace" - Book Review, Paul Mojzes

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


Blessed Vasyl Velychkovsky, C.Ss.R. “Father Of The Underground Church In Ukraine”, John Sianchuk C.Ss.R. Sep 2014

Blessed Vasyl Velychkovsky, C.Ss.R. “Father Of The Underground Church In Ukraine”, John Sianchuk C.Ss.R.

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


Measuring Grace, Rodger K. Bufford Aug 2014

Measuring Grace, Rodger K. Bufford

Faculty Publications - Doctor of Psychology (PsyD) Program

No abstract provided.


Notes From The Field: Delivering Trauma And Disaster Mental Health Services In Dangerous Places, Rodger K. Bufford, George F. Rhoades Aug 2014

Notes From The Field: Delivering Trauma And Disaster Mental Health Services In Dangerous Places, Rodger K. Bufford, George F. Rhoades

Faculty Publications - Doctor of Psychology (PsyD) Program

The second presentation will describe findings from a series of empirical studies conducted in zones of persistent and cumulative exposure to traumatic stress. The zones under examination include Sri Lanka, India, Sudan, Haiti, Japan, and the West Bank of the Jordan River. The findings are discussed in terms their implications for public health (both “physical” and “mental”), spiritual and emotional wellbeing, and the reciprocal influences of culture and traumatic experiences.


Religiosity, Marital Adjustment, And Intimacy, Bryan L. Presler Jun 2014

Religiosity, Marital Adjustment, And Intimacy, Bryan L. Presler

Doctor of Psychology (PsyD)

The purpose of this study was to examine the complexities of how religious attendance, personal religious activity, and importance of religion are related to marital adjustment and emotional, sexual, and spiritual intimacy. Previous research suggests that church attendance is related to higher marital adjustment; however, the relationship between sexual satisfaction and religiosity appears to be minimal, although Christian authors often suggest a link. The Revised Dyadic Adjustment Scale (RDAS), and the Emotional, Sexual, and Spiritual Intimacy Scale (ESSI) were administered to a sample of 88 married individuals. One-way ANOVAs found that religious attendance was not related to marital adjustment, or …


Femininity, Masculinity, Gender, And The Role Of Shame On Christian Men And Women In The Evangelical Church Culture, Joy L. Hottenstein May 2014

Femininity, Masculinity, Gender, And The Role Of Shame On Christian Men And Women In The Evangelical Church Culture, Joy L. Hottenstein

Doctor of Psychology (PsyD)

Previous research has suggested that individuals (men and women) who endorse more feminine characteristics according to Bem’s Sex Role Inventory (BSRI) are more prone to shame. There have been no known studies conducted to determine if this link also exists within the Evangelical Christian church. Shame, across the research literature, is linked to psychological maladjustment and is defined as a sense that one’s core self is defective and comes up short on expectations. The purpose of this study is to test the relationship between gender, gender role, and shame for men and women who are active in the Evangelical church …


Toward An Ecotheological Anthropology, Peter Garcia May 2014

Toward An Ecotheological Anthropology, Peter Garcia

Seminary Masters Theses

The image of God has carried with it a special designation for humanity within the panoply of life on earth. This project attempts to reorient and expand theological anthropology to include the ecological dimension in Christian perspective to cultivate an understanding of the ecological self. This project will place traditional interpretations of what it means to be human into conversation with twentieth-century ecological philosophies and Native American spirituality in order to broaden the Christian imagination for understanding ourselves within creation. Vine Deloria’s analyses of Western temporal thinking and spatial thinking demonstrated by Native worldviews provides perspective for necessary theological shifts …


The Thirty Years' War: Examining The Origins And Effects Of Corpus Christianum's Defining Conflict, Justin Mcmurdie May 2014

The Thirty Years' War: Examining The Origins And Effects Of Corpus Christianum's Defining Conflict, Justin Mcmurdie

Seminary Masters Theses

The following thesis is an examination of the Thirty Years’ War. This conflict, from 1618-1648 in the “Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation,” was the culminating conflict of the Reformation era and set the stage for the modern world. Much scholarly debate in recent years has centered on whether or not the Thirty Years’ War was a “religious” conflict. A great deal of recent work has tended to minimize or discount the religious element of the conflict. This current thesis attempts to engage this debate and to argue that the war’s origins did indeed lie in religious concerns. This …


Brain-Based Worship: Re-Membering The Mind-Body Connection, Paula Champion-Jones May 2014

Brain-Based Worship: Re-Membering The Mind-Body Connection, Paula Champion-Jones

Doctor of Ministry

Historically, it has been believed that Christian formation occurs primarily in the context of worship. Because both traditional and contemporary worship services are routinely structured around the skills of persuasive rhetoric and logic, most worship services effectively ignore the impact of experiential, embodied knowledge. Recent research in neuroscience has proven that humans are sensory-motor-emotional-thinking beings who learn best when body, brain, and emotions are simultaneously engaged. A fresh paradigm for teaching, brain-based leaning, is proving to result in learning that is more memorable, more likely to result in long-term change in the behavior of the learner, and more likely to …