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Articles 271 - 300 of 377
Full-Text Articles in History of Christianity
Skidmore's "Strength In Weakness: Writings By Eighteenth-Century Quaker Women" - Book Review, Pam Lunn
Skidmore's "Strength In Weakness: Writings By Eighteenth-Century Quaker Women" - Book Review, Pam Lunn
Quaker Studies
No abstract provided.
Villani's "A True Account Of The Great Tryals And Cruel Sufferings Undergone By Those Two Faithful Servants Of God Katherine Evans And Sarah Cheevers: La Vicenda Di Due Quacchere Prigioniere Dell' Inquisizione Di Malta" - Book Review, Pink Dandelion
Quaker Studies
No abstract provided.
Friends, Nazis And Communists: The Double Persecution Of Antonie Kleinerova, Maria Dowling
Friends, Nazis And Communists: The Double Persecution Of Antonie Kleinerova, Maria Dowling
Quaker Studies
This article takes as its theme the persecution of religious groups and individuals by governments that aspire to totalitarian power. Its subject is the Quakers of Prague during the first half of the twentieth century who suffered at the hands of both occupying German Nazis and native Czechoslovak Communists. In particular, the article focuses on Antonie Kleinerova (1901-1982), who entered into membership of the Religious Society of Friends in 1933 together with her husband.After the Nazis occupied the Czech lands in 1939 she was active in the underground resistance, and for this reason the couple were among the victims of …
James Rendel Harris: A Life On The Quest, Alessandro Falcetta
James Rendel Harris: A Life On The Quest, Alessandro Falcetta
Quaker Studies
No abstract provided.
The Balby Seekers And Richard Farnworth, Richard J. Hoare
The Balby Seekers And Richard Farnworth, Richard J. Hoare
Quaker Studies
This paper describes the group of Seekers which flourished briefly in 1650 and 1651 around Balby, Warmsworth and Tickhill in South Yorkshire, and explores their origins. They may have numbered up to thirty, and had developed as radical puritans independently of any immediate local Separatist tradition or Grindletonian influence. They joined with George Fox on his arrival around December 1651, providing several pioneers who helped in launching the Quaker movement. These included Richard Farnworth, Thomas Aldam, Benjamin Nicholson, and John, Thomas and Margaret Killam, with Thomas and Elizabeth Stacy from Ballifield near Sheffield. Evidence is presented that Farnworth was born …
Friends In Business: Researching The History Of Quaker Involvement In Industry And Commerce, Helen Roberts
Friends In Business: Researching The History Of Quaker Involvement In Industry And Commerce, Helen Roberts
Quaker Studies
This paper is intended as an aid to those researching the history of Quaker involvement in industry and commerce, with a regional focus on Yorkshire. A selection of archives of businesses founded and run by Quakers, as well as of family and personal papers of Friends in business are surveyed here. Both the historical context and a summary of the surviving sources are given for each collection surveyed, with details of where the material is held. Examples have been chosen to represent the Quaker contribution to particular trades and industries, and in some cases, to promote collections which have recently …
The Local Philanthropy Of The Reckitt Family, With Particular Reference To Hull Garden Village, Jane Pietrusiak
The Local Philanthropy Of The Reckitt Family, With Particular Reference To Hull Garden Village, Jane Pietrusiak
Quaker Studies
Sir James Reckitt, a Quaker, Chairman of Reckitt & Sons, Limited, a manufacturer of laundry and household products based in Kingston upon Hull, was well known as a local philanthropist. Philanthropy, perhaps combined with fear of social unrest, but with a firm foundation of his own experience in public life, provided the impetus for Sir James Reckitt to build Hull Garden Village, commencing in 1907. A range of house sizes was rented to the workforce and others, within walUng distance of Reckitt's factories. Local architects Runton & Barry supervised all aspects of the building and village lay out. Community feeling …
Quaker Families And Business Networks In Nineteenth-Century Darlington, Gillian Cookson
Quaker Families And Business Networks In Nineteenth-Century Darlington, Gillian Cookson
Quaker Studies
This article investigates the central role played by Quakers in the industrial and urban growth of Darlington, focusing in particular upon family and business connections with Friends in the City of London. From the launch of the town's famous first railway, to the ensuing arrival of heavy industry in the 1850s and 1860s, Quakers were at the forefront of industrial and urban developments. While Quaker entrepreneurs possessed advantages in business deriving from their access to finance and advice, and from their reputation for probity, the idea that they also had special talents for foresight, innovation and management, is not borne …
Editorial (Quaker Studies Volume 8, Issue 2), Pink Dandelion
Editorial (Quaker Studies Volume 8, Issue 2), Pink Dandelion
Quaker Studies
No abstract provided.
Guest Editorial (Quaker Studies Volume 8, Issue 2), Helen Roberts
Guest Editorial (Quaker Studies Volume 8, Issue 2), Helen Roberts
Quaker Studies
No abstract provided.
Public Justice And Personal Liberty: Variety And Linguistic Skill In The Letters Of Mary Fisher, Althea Stewart
Public Justice And Personal Liberty: Variety And Linguistic Skill In The Letters Of Mary Fisher, Althea Stewart
Quaker Studies
This essay concerns the use of language in letters by Mary Fisher, the seventeenth-century Quaker missionary. It shows how she adapts her exegetical discourse to suit her readers, and uses it for more than selfjustification. Her first letter, written from York prison is shown to be influenced by the work of Elizabeth Hooton. It is also used as an example of a letter containing a complex and subtle biblical subtext. This technique gave these early Quaker women the confidence to write. Both Fisher and Hooton started writing to draw attention to injustice. Hooton continued to do this throughout her life; …
Francis Ellington's Use Of Prophecy To Explain The Appearance, Deliverance, And Apocalyptic Role Of Quakers In The Last Days, Richard G. Bailey
Francis Ellington's Use Of Prophecy To Explain The Appearance, Deliverance, And Apocalyptic Role Of Quakers In The Last Days, Richard G. Bailey
Quaker Studies
Early Quakers rarely relied on ancient or modern (seventeenth century) prophecy to authenticate their faith. The reason for this was their emphasis on inner revelation. After the Nayler episode Quakers slowly began to turn their energies toward making necessary theological and institutional adjustments that would better enable the movement to control the radical individualism of the inner light. One area that has not received much attention is how attitudes toward prophecy were changing. This paper focuses on one distinctive Quaker pamphlet which appeared in 1664. Francis Ellington's A Christian Information Conce��ning These Last Times demonstrates how one Quaker was strugglmg …
Anne Camm And The Vanishing Quaker Prophets, Christine Trevett
Anne Camm And The Vanishing Quaker Prophets, Christine Trevett
Quaker Studies
No abstract provided.
Work In Progress: Inwardness And Outwardness: Quietism And Evangelicalism In The Life Of Mary Birkett Card, 1774-1817, Josephine Teakle
Work In Progress: Inwardness And Outwardness: Quietism And Evangelicalism In The Life Of Mary Birkett Card, 1774-1817, Josephine Teakle
Quaker Studies
No abstract provided.
Aspects Of Publishing By The Peace Committee Of The Religious Society Of Friends (London Yearly Meeting), 1888 - 1905, Margaret Mckechnie Glover
Aspects Of Publishing By The Peace Committee Of The Religious Society Of Friends (London Yearly Meeting), 1888 - 1905, Margaret Mckechnie Glover
Quaker Studies
Although Quakers were active in the British peace movement from the early nineteenth century, it was not until 1888 that the Religious Society of Friends, in Britain, had its own corporate Peace Committee. It was the increasing quantity of printed resource material - petitions, pamphlets, and posters - published by this committee which informed and propagated the peace approach of Friends, locally, nationally and internationally. The Peace Committee used Quaker printing firms and, being part of the Society of Friends, remained financially viable, although under constraints. The years 1888-1905 saw a growth in co-operation between peace organisations, and Peace Committee …
Fager's "Without Apology: The Heroes, The Heritage And The Hope Of Liberal Quakerism" - Book Review, Douglas Gwyn
Fager's "Without Apology: The Heroes, The Heritage And The Hope Of Liberal Quakerism" - Book Review, Douglas Gwyn
Quaker Studies
No abstract provided.
Work In Progress: Quakers In The The Carnage Of The First World War: An Individual Story From The Friends' Ambulance Unit, Richard H. Robson
Work In Progress: Quakers In The The Carnage Of The First World War: An Individual Story From The Friends' Ambulance Unit, Richard H. Robson
Quaker Studies
No abstract provided.
Research Note: On Quakerism And Christianity, Chuck Fager
Research Note: On Quakerism And Christianity, Chuck Fager
Quaker Studies
No abstract provided.
A Catholic Looks At Quakerism, Michael Mullett
A Catholic Looks At Quakerism, Michael Mullett
Quaker Studies
In this article Michael Mullet first sketches the well-advertised dissimilarities between Catholicism, the epitome, for many, of 'conservative' Christianity, and Quakerism, which brought to a high point of development the religious radicalism implicit in the Reformation. However, Mullett argues that, underlyingly, relatively superficial dissonances over such issues as church order and (more significantly) sacrament, Tridentine Catholicism and Quakerism shared, in opposition to the Reformation's key principles of justification by faith alone and its corollary predestination, an abiding, soteriological and anthropological acceptance (grounded in the Epistle of James) of the role of free will and of justification and sanctification by works …
'You Have Lost Your Opportunity' British Quakers And The Militant Phase Of The Women's Suffrage Campaign: 1906-1914, Pam Lunn
Quaker Studies
Quakers are widely believed to have been in the forefront of 19th century social change, and in particular to have been in favour of women's equality. Through consideration of individual and corporate public statements by British Friends during the period of militant campaigning for women to have the parliamentary vote, I show that this perception is inaccurate, largely mythic, and based on generalisation from the actions of a small number of individual Friends. I suggest that Friends' reputation for having been corporately progressive on the question of women's equality is undeserved, based on superficial consideration of the use of the …
Offices And Services: Women's Pursuit Of Sexual Equality Within The Society Of Friends, 1873 - 1907, Sandra Stanley Holton, Margaret Allen
Offices And Services: Women's Pursuit Of Sexual Equality Within The Society Of Friends, 1873 - 1907, Sandra Stanley Holton, Margaret Allen
Quaker Studies
The presence of Quaker women at the founding of a social movement for women's rights in Britain in the late 1860s has received growing attention from historians in recent years. Yet the links between the religious faith of such Quaker women and their political radicalism has remained largely unexamined. A liberal theology which acknowledged the spiritual equality of women has been assumed to have prompted their involvement in a liberal politics, and more especially in women's rights campaigning. This article argues that the relationship between religious views and political action was more complex in this case. It suggests that the …
An Evaluation Of The Doctrine Of The Inward Light As A Basis For Mission - As Exemplified By Quaker Approaches To Jews And Muslims In The Seventeenth Century, Kathleen Thomas
Quaker Studies
The concept of the Inward Light, variously understood, was the basis for Quaker missionary activity m the seventeenth century. Quakers made attempts to convert Jews and Muslims, both by going out to meet them and by writing tracts and epistles. Considerable use was made of the Hebrew Scriptures and of the Qur'an. The conversionist approach proved unsuccessful, and this led to a change in the Quaker understanding of mission.
Money Matters - The Experience Of English Friends In Stavanger, 1885-1900, David Adshead
Money Matters - The Experience Of English Friends In Stavanger, 1885-1900, David Adshead
Quaker Studies
The economic depression in Norway in the mid- 1880s led to the virtual bankruptcy of two of the key members of the Stavanger Meeting at a time when there was also a crisis of leadership following the death of Endre Dahl for so long the leader of the Quaker group there. A small group of English Friends led by Walter Morris (later, Morice) made an appeal for funds so as to be able to make commercial loans and thus ease the situation for Carl Nyman and Peter Fugilie who had by now made arrangements with their creditors. But just as …
The First George Richardson Lecture, Delivered By Professor Grigor Mcclelland At The University Of Sunderland, October 22, 1996: What Is Quaker Studies?, Grigor Mcclelland
The First George Richardson Lecture, Delivered By Professor Grigor Mcclelland At The University Of Sunderland, October 22, 1996: What Is Quaker Studies?, Grigor Mcclelland
Quaker Studies
No abstract provided.
Freeman's "The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust: A Study In Quaker Philanthropy And Adult Education" - Book Review, Pink Dandelion
Freeman's "The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust: A Study In Quaker Philanthropy And Adult Education" - Book Review, Pink Dandelion
Quaker Studies
No abstract provided.
Tonsing's "The Quakers In South Africa: A Social Witness" - Review, Gerard Guiton
Tonsing's "The Quakers In South Africa: A Social Witness" - Review, Gerard Guiton
Quaker Studies
No abstract provided.
H. & J. Mellor's "Seekers And Finders: Quakers In High Wycombe 1650-2000: A Brief History", Sheila Wright
H. & J. Mellor's "Seekers And Finders: Quakers In High Wycombe 1650-2000: A Brief History", Sheila Wright
Quaker Studies
No abstract provided.
British Quakers And A New Kind Of End-Time Prophecy, Charles Stroud, Pink Dandelion
British Quakers And A New Kind Of End-Time Prophecy, Charles Stroud, Pink Dandelion
Quaker Studies
This research note challenges the accuracy of Dandelion's claim that British Quakerism will survive until 2108 and presents two mathematical calculations of the point when there would be no Quakers left in Britain. It concludes that the 2108 figure may not be so far from the truth although this depends on the date from which decline is charted. The article also raises questions about the date at which a critical minimum might be reached.
'Will The Last (Woman) Friend To Leave Please Ensure That The Light Remains Shining?', Bill Chadkirk
'Will The Last (Woman) Friend To Leave Please Ensure That The Light Remains Shining?', Bill Chadkirk
Quaker Studies
This paper analyses trends in membership of the Religious Society of Friends in Britain, the number of members per Meeting and the changes in the gender balance of membership. It identifies polynomial equations to curves that match the data very closely. An accelerating decline in membership commencing in 1990 is identified. Trends are extrapolated to determine an end-point in 2032. The paper makes clear that as this date approaches the relationship between the data and trend is liable to breakdown.
A Case Of Political Philanthropy: The Rowntree Family And The Campaign For Democratic Reform, Jonathan S. Davies, Mark Freeman
A Case Of Political Philanthropy: The Rowntree Family And The Campaign For Democratic Reform, Jonathan S. Davies, Mark Freeman
Quaker Studies
This article examines the attitude of the Rowntree family - and in particular its three prominent members, Joseph, Arnold and Seebohm Rowntree - to campaigns for democratic and constitutional reform in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It explores their views on women's suffrage, reform of the House of Lords and proportional representation, and their practical involvement in the promotion or otherwise of democracy in their dealings with the press, their model community at New Earswick and in the adult education institutions with which they were associated. The article argues that, in common with many other Quakers, the Rowntrees' …