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Rufus Jones And Quaker Unity, Hugh Barbour

Truth's Bright Embrace: Essays and Poems in Honor of Arthur O. Roberts

The Society of Friends, for Rufus Jones as for Arthur Roberts, remains a single movement, called by God to a special role in American Christianity and world history. Both men have also been realistically aware of human limitations and diversity. Yet they have seen God's power, shared in meetings for worship as well as in the religious experience of individuals, able to change human society and transcend human ideas and institutions.

Some Reflections On Quakers And The Evangelical Spirit, John Punshon

Truth's Bright Embrace: Essays and Poems in Honor of Arthur O. Roberts

I suppose that Arthur Roberts was the first evangelical Friend I ever met. On what was probably the third day of my very first visit to the United States, I flew out to Oregon to meet him and visit George Fox College. I had been teaching at Woodbrooke, the English Quaker study center, for a couple of years, and I was beginning to get an inkling that there were many Friends in the world who were not like us. I wanted to get as far away from London Yearly Meeting as I possibly could, and Northwest Yearly Meeting seemed to …

The Indians' Friends, James D. Le Shana

Truth's Bright Embrace: Essays and Poems in Honor of Arthur O. Roberts

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Thy Obedience Is Perfect Freedom, T. Canby Jones

Truth's Bright Embrace: Essays and Poems in Honor of Arthur O. Roberts

"In this talk I plan to examine freedom and obedience in Scripture, in George Fox, Thomas R. Kelly, William Penn; interpreting each with my own leadings and attempts to understand the relationship between freedom and obedience."

Resistance In A 'Culture Of Permission:' Sociological Readings Of The Correspondence With Persian Authorities In Ezra 1-7, Daniel L. Smith-Christopher

Truth's Bright Embrace: Essays and Poems in Honor of Arthur O. Roberts

The first six chapters of the book of Ezra center around an alleged correspondence between the Persian Emporer's court and the local authorities of Palestine under Persian rule. Without question, these letters were crucial to the editors of Ezra-Nehemiah. But why? What does the reproduction of this alleged official correspondence mean to the final editors of Ezra-Nehemiah?

Anthony Benezet, The True Champion Of The Slave, Irv A. Brendlinger

Truth's Bright Embrace: Essays and Poems in Honor of Arthur O. Roberts

Anthony Benezet was the greatest eighteenth century influence on the ending of British slavery and the slave trade. While names such as Wilberforce, Sharp and Clarkson ring with familiarity as champions of the slave, it is Benezet who occupies the position of foundational influence on these men and the entire cause. To substantiate this claim I shall briefly introduce his life and examine his antislavery activities and influences. However, it is most fitting to begin with his death and the public response to it.

The Nature Of Mysticism, Gayle Beebe

Truth's Bright Embrace: Essays and Poems in Honor of Arthur O. Roberts

As a definitive work of the Society of Friends, the Journal of George Fox has set the tone and tenor for the Society's understanding of one's experience of God or the ultimately Real. Various interpretations of Fox have been offered, but a consistent theme in all interpretations has been Fox's emphasis on the necessity of an experimental or experiential understanding of one's encounter with God. A result of this consistent emphasis has been a trend Fox started himself: since one's experience of God is the touchstone of religious faith, the role or importance of religious texts, religious communities and religious …

Herbert Hoover As An Enduring Model For American Leaders, Mark O. Hatfield

Truth's Bright Embrace: Essays and Poems in Honor of Arthur O. Roberts

Senator Mark O. Hatfield writes a personal reflection on Herbert Hoover's influence.

Poems, Nancy Thomas

Truth's Bright Embrace: Essays and Poems in Honor of Arthur O. Roberts

Poems include:

A Psalm for High Places
I Love Tangents
God at "The Penguin"
Metaphors for Transformation
An Ecumenical Quaker Draws the Line

Poems, Michael P. Graves

Truth's Bright Embrace: Essays and Poems in Honor of Arthur O. Roberts

Poems include:

Pie in the Sky
The Iconoclast Has His Day

The Mother Tongue: Acquiring Language And Being Human, Rebecca Ankeny

Truth's Bright Embrace: Essays and Poems in Honor of Arthur O. Roberts

One of my favorite Far Sides shows a spider on an analyst's couch, saying, "It's the same dream night after night...I walk out on my web, and suddenly a foot sticks-and then another foot sticks, and another, and another, and another...." Gary Larsen's spider expresses the impression that people who are fascinated by language have: language is like a web. I spin it out thinking that I have it under control, and suddenly it seems I am caught in the system of words. I open my mouth to speak, and suddenly words appear or disappear, the wrong words come, or …

Arthur O. Roberts: A Select Bibliography, Arthur O. Roberts

Truth's Bright Embrace: Essays and Poems in Honor of Arthur O. Roberts

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A Nature Nudge, Gary K. Fawver

Truth's Bright Embrace: Essays and Poems in Honor of Arthur O. Roberts

For a number of years now, I have believed that informal and formal outdoor experiences built on a biblical knowledge base can be beneficial and should be purposely pursued throughout one's life. My intentions for a vocational ministry in the outdoors have been to reconnect people with the natural realm, to assist them in rediscovering the outdoors. In support of that, I conducted an action research project to demonstrate the benefits of God's natural world, the outdoors, in the lives of a select group of people through a five-day "immersion" in that outdoor environment. The outdoor setting became the mechanism …

The Anti-Theatrical Prejudice And The Quakers, Michael P. Graves

Truth's Bright Embrace: Essays and Poems in Honor of Arthur O. Roberts

Today's Quakers are considerably less "hard-shelled" and "mole-eyed" and there are signs on both sides of the Atlantic that the Society of Friends has made progress toward making peace with the theatre. Indeed, one could argue that the situation has changed radically in the last three hundred fifty years, but there remains an ambiguity at best, an antipathy at worst, between Quaker thought and the theatre. This topic is too broad to be encompassed within the limits of this essay, which can merely open doors slightly to a subject that should be treated in more depth at another time and …

Poems, Ed Higgins

Truth's Bright Embrace: Essays and Poems in Honor of Arthur O. Roberts

Poems include:

Astrobiography
Of Light
Galaxies
For the children of Dunblane, Scotland
Eve's Body
Silent Prayer

Darkness At Noonday, Ralph Beebe

Truth's Bright Embrace: Essays and Poems in Honor of Arthur O. Roberts

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Abigail V. Harvey, Lee Nash

Truth's Bright Embrace: Essays and Poems in Honor of Arthur O. Roberts

Sibling Rivalry in the Oregon Campaign for Woman Suffrage.

Evangelical Quakers And Public Policy, Lon Fendall

Truth's Bright Embrace: Essays and Poems in Honor of Arthur O. Roberts

In Arthur Roberts' excellent volume reflecting on his life, Drawn By The Light, he briefly describes his involvement in state and local politics. He ran unsuccessfully for a position in the Oregon Legislature and later served a four-year term on the Yachats, Oregon, City Council. It was not easy for Arthur to bridge the gulf between the intellectual depth and erudite vocabulary of the scholar and the rough and tumble of state and local politics. But he felt that these political involvements had "quickened my appreciation for ordinary activity as the true vocation for the church." Arthur took his city …

A Basis For Civility, Phil D. Smith

Truth's Bright Embrace: Essays and Poems in Honor of Arthur O. Roberts

Give attention, if you will, to the virtue of civility. In this essay I want to define civility, then give a bit of its history, continue by predicting something of its future, and conclude by explaining civility's true ground, at least as I understand it.

We are not here interested in politeness or courtesy, though those meanings of "civility" may be ancillary to our topic. We are thinking instead about the political realm, and we are aware that many voices have been raised to decry the mean-spirited and vicious nature of politics, both in attaining and using public office. \Vise …

Review Of Surrogates And Other Mothers: The Debates Over Assisted Reproduction, By R. Macklin, Paul Lauritzen

Theology & Religious Studies

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1996 Minutes Of The Kings Mountain Baptist Association, Kings Mountain Baptist Association

Kings Mountain Baptist Association Minute Books

The 1996 meeting of the Kings Mountain Baptist Association met at Ross Grove Baptist Church and Elizabeth Baptist Church in Shelby, NC. The minutes are dedicated to the memory of Rev. Amos M. Kiser, Sr., Rev. Rufus James Sanders, Jr., and Rev. Ernest M. Smith. Gardner-Webb is noted to be the only Baptist school in the state with programs for blind and deaf students. The Association announced their partnership with the Western Province Baptist Association in Cape Town, South Africa. The Executive Board and Missions Committee established the Kings Mountain Baptist Association Missions Foundation to assist individuals in participating in …

The Catholic Catechism On Jews And Judaism, The Institute Of Judaeo-Christian Studies

Teshuvah Institute Papers

This publication focuses on the Catechism of the Catholic Church and its teachings on Jews and Judaism and features the following contributions:

"The Catechism of the Catholic Church" by the Reverend Lawrence E. Frizzell.

"The Universal Catechism's Teaching on the Jews and Judaism in the Context of the Documents Stemming from Vatican II and the Statements by Pope John Paul II" by Rabbi Jack Bemporad.

Between Earth And Heaven: The Dialectical Structure Of Ignatian Imagination, Paul G. Crowley

Religious Studies

The theology of liberation has by now entered the common lexicon not only of theologians, but of many people who have until recently expressed little interest in theology.¹ It is a theological genre or, better, a "movement" issuing out of and responsive to the experience of the poor and suffering of history, based upon a conviction that the Gospel has direct pertinence to the concrete human condition. It calls for a liberating practice as the way salvation is to be realized in history. A theology of liberation understands the Gospel as a divine challenge to any exercise of political …

Stories From An Illustrated Explanation Of The Tract Of The Most Exalted On Action And Response, Catherine M. Bell

Religious Studies

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Feminist Spirituality: Christian Alternative Or Alternative To Christianity?, Sandra Marie Schneiders

Jesuit School of Theology

Let us consider the issue of feminism in relation to Christian spirituality, i.e . to the area of lived experience of the faith. It must be noted, however, that the term "spirituality" is no longer an exclusively Christian, nor even an exclusively religious, term. Not surprisingly, therefore, feminist spirituality is not necessarily a Christian or even a religious phenomenon. In fact, however, as we shall see, feminist spirituality whether Christian or not tends to be deeply religious. Consequently, our first task is to define spirituality and specify the meaning of Christian spirituality so that we can then raise the question …

Contributors -- Quaker Religious Thought, Nos. 87, A. O. R.

Quaker Religious Thought

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Menorah Review (No. 37, Spring/Summer, 1996)

Menorah Review

What Do You Say That I Am? -- Taking the Plunge -- Freudian Identity -- Poetic Faith -- The First Arab-Israeli Talks: An Anti-Zionist's Perspective -- Love and Death in the Jewish Exegetical Tradition -- Book Briefings

The Dao Of Qoheleth: An Intertextual Reading Of The Daode Jing And The Book Of Ecclesiastes, R. Christopher Heard

Religion Division Faculty Scholarship

Of all the world's literary works which may appropriately be labeled religious classics, the Hebrew scriptures and the Daode Jing stand out as two of the most popular across cultural and linguistic boundaries. One might suppose that the cross-cultural popularity of these classics would have brought them into frequent contact with one another. However, not much seems to have been done to relate the Bible to the Daode Jing in a constructive way. In this article, I seek to begin redressing this lack of conversation by offering a reading of the biblical book of Ecclesiastes using the Daode Jing as …

Nabonidus Chronicle: New Readings And The Identity Of Darius The Mede, William H. Shea

Journal of the Adventist Theological Society

No abstract provided.

The Virgin Mary As Mediatrix Between Christians And Muslims In The Middle East, Otto F. A. Meinardus

Marian Studies

No abstract provided.