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22038 results in Cambridge Companions

Page 307 of 1102

  • 4 - Literature

  • from Part II - Expressions of Quaker Faith
  • Edited by Stephen W. Angell, Pink Dandelion, University of Birmingham
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Quakerism
    Published online:
    06 April 2018
    Print publication:
    19 April 2018, pp 69-87

  • Summary

    Friends’ attitudes to literary works have altered substantially from the inception of the movement to the present day. While early Friends believed that writing should be simple and honest -- and, consequently, that artful genres were at best frivolous and at worst diabolical -- many Quakers today believe that God is immanent in all forms of human expression. Recent Quaker writers have written novels, ghost stories, murder mysteries, science fiction and experimental poetry, all literary forms that earlier Friends would have denounced as profane or vain.

  • 16 - Evangelical Quakerism and Global Christianity

  • from Part IV - Emerging Spiritualities
  • Edited by Stephen W. Angell, Pink Dandelion, University of Birmingham
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Quakerism
    Published online:
    06 April 2018
    Print publication:
    19 April 2018, pp 290-307

  • Summary

    The growth of Quakerism in the Majority World, and of evangelicalism within Quakerism, parallels the larger trend in global Christianity, in which the numerical center of Christianity has moved outside of Western contexts and is dominated by evangelical spirituality. This chapter examines evangelical Friends in their present day situation in three primary sections. The first section defines evangelicalism generally and then applies that definition to evangelical Friends, tracing their development over time. The second section identifies the main ecclesial bodies populated by evangelical Quakers, their primary responsibilities and missions, and their prominence around the world. The final main section discusses the differences and similarities between evangelical Friends and the wider Quaker communion.

  • 3 - Global Quakerism 1920–2015

  • from Part I - History of Quaker Faith and Practice
  • Edited by Stephen W. Angell, Pink Dandelion, University of Birmingham
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Quakerism
    Published online:
    06 April 2018
    Print publication:
    19 April 2018, pp 49-66

  • Summary

    In the era of global Quakerism after 1920, new bitter theological debates arose during the century producing more organic schism, whilst at the same time old wounds were healed bringing together again meetings long divided. Two world wars renewed a call to peace-making and humanitarianism among all Friends resulting in a Nobel Peace Prize, but little common ground was found on what theology constituted grounds for outreach and service. Quakers in the Global South experienced phenomenal growth, and the future promise for Friends now lies in that region as the number of adherents in traditional British and U.S. strongholds wane.

  • 8 - The Changing World of Quaker Material Culture

  • from Part II - Expressions of Quaker Faith
  • Edited by Stephen W. Angell, Pink Dandelion, University of Birmingham
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Quakerism
    Published online:
    06 April 2018
    Print publication:
    19 April 2018, pp 147-158

  • Summary

    This chapter explores Quakers’ thinking about how day-to-day choices of objects and behaviours might best reflect their theology. The guiding concepts of what founding Friends spoke of as “plain” or “unostentatious,” have remained an important touchstone of Quakers’ vocabulary and identity for more than three centuries. Over time, the language, interpretations, and implications of those concepts have been reshaped by region, culture, and circumstance. With consideration to the international context of Quakerism, we examine distinctive ideas, speech, clothing, building design, and other markers of what Quakers called “outward” customs, as a way of reflecting their “inward” religious commitment.

  • 17 - Convergent Friends

  • from Part IV - Emerging Spiritualities
  • Edited by Stephen W. Angell, Pink Dandelion, University of Birmingham
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Quakerism
    Published online:
    06 April 2018
    Print publication:
    19 April 2018, pp 308-327

  • Summary

    In this chapter, the sector of Quakerism labelled as ‘convergent Friends’ is explored linguistically, historically, and in terms of how they manifests today within contemporary Western Quakerism. Convergent Friends, fueled by the use of social media, combine insights from the emerging church movement and traditional understandings of the Quaker faith in order to hold both conservative and emergent impulses in tension with dialogue around differences present within modern Quakerism.

  • 14 - Unprogrammed Quaker Spiritualities

  • from Part IV - Emerging Spiritualities
  • Edited by Stephen W. Angell, Pink Dandelion, University of Birmingham
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Quakerism
    Published online:
    06 April 2018
    Print publication:
    19 April 2018, pp 259-273

  • Summary

    This chapter begins with an account of a spiritual renewal among Friends that draws on a recovery of historic Quaker practices through the influence of Friends from the Conservative branch of Quakers and how this has enhanced the inward lives of other-than-Conservative Friends. This chapter then turns to the topic of contemporary Friends who have gone a step beyond drawing inspiration from the spirituality of other traditions, to the point of actively identifying with more than one religious community.

  • 9 - Quakers in North America

  • from Part III - Regional Studies
  • Edited by Stephen W. Angell, Pink Dandelion, University of Birmingham
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Quakerism
    Published online:
    06 April 2018
    Print publication:
    19 April 2018, pp 161-178

  • Summary

    With particular concern for the complex interplay between unity and fractiousness in this region, this chapter profiles the three largest branches of North American Quakers: Friends General Conference, the most liberal branch; Friends United Meeting, which serves a mixed group of Quaker liberals and evangelicals; and the Evangelical Friends Church International, a clear voice for Evangelical Friends. Western Yearly Meeting, composed of meetings affiliated with Friends United Meeting located in Western Indiana and Illinois, is the subject of a case study for this chapter.

  • 5 - Social Justice and Sustainability

  • from Part II - Expressions of Quaker Faith
  • Edited by Stephen W. Angell, Pink Dandelion, University of Birmingham
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Quakerism
    Published online:
    06 April 2018
    Print publication:
    19 April 2018, pp 88-105

  • Summary

    Long advocates for the oppressed, Friends have a tradition of seeking to right perceived wrongs and bring light to situations—interpersonal, familial, and societal—that demonstrate imbalances in power and the overlooking or denial of the sacred center, “that of God,” in everyone. Action on behalf of social justice arises from an inward leading, a pressure within, that calls Friends into ‘right relationship’ with the issue needing more ‘Light’, whether that is racism, oppression, abuse of power, food inequity, the need for restorative justice, exploitation of the planet, or other worthy concerns.

  • 18 - Intra-Quaker Ecumenism

  • from Part IV - Emerging Spiritualities
  • Edited by Stephen W. Angell, Pink Dandelion, University of Birmingham
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Quakerism
    Published online:
    06 April 2018
    Print publication:
    19 April 2018, pp 328-347

  • Summary

    This chapter explores some ongoing efforts among Quaker women to sustain and nurture relationships across the varied and at times conflicting traditions of Friends. The primary example offered here is that of women in the Pacific Northwest (PNW) of the United States where the two yearly meetings are at the opposite ends of Friends’ theological spectrum. These efforts will be compared to the work of the United Society for Friends Women (USFW) which has been a leader in connecting across Yearly Meetings, especially in Kenya where the tensions and pressures separating Friends are substantially different than in the United States.

  • 1 - History of Quaker Faith and Practice: 1650–1808

  • from Part I - History of Quaker Faith and Practice
  • Edited by Stephen W. Angell, Pink Dandelion, University of Birmingham
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Quakerism
    Published online:
    06 April 2018
    Print publication:
    19 April 2018, pp 13-30

  • Summary

    The first century-and-a-half of Quaker existence is presented through such metaphors as ‘the Lamb’s War’. This represented at first both a personal experience leading to overcoming evil within oneself and a corporate confrontation against evil in the larger world. By 1800, after a tumultuous series of revolutions and wars in the North Atlantic world, the Quaker Lamb’s War had changed to highly organized sectarianism distinct from mainstream society, and, among some notable Quakers, implied a humanitarianism impelled by ongoing commitment to the Inward Light. The Inward Light, revelation, spiritual equality, Quaker witness (also called ethics or ‘testimonies’), and group governance through discernment persisted through all three periods, and remain common to Friends today

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