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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Church history History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Weddle, Meredith Baldwin, 1939- Walking in the way of peace. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001 (DLC) 99053089 (OCoLC)42708122 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Meredith Baldwin Weddle |
ISBN: | 9780195131383 019513138X 1423726499 9781423726494 0198030096 9780198030096 9786610472710 6610472718 1280472715 9781280472718 |
OCLC Number: | 191935254 |
Language Note: | English. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 348 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Contents: | Methods and Terms; Introduction; PART I: THE PEACE TESTIMONY; Prologue; 1. And the Shout of a King Is amongst Us -- 2. A Killinge Instrument We May neither Forme, nor Beare: The Peace Testimony; 3. Fire at the Mast: The Practice of Peace; PART II: NEW ENGLAND; 4. Bold Boyes and Blasphemers: Quakers in Early New England; 5. The Habitation of the Hunted-Christ: Rhode Island and Providence Plantations; 6. Times of Motion and Danger: Reacting to Fear of War, 1667-1673; 7. Fighting against the Minde of God: The 1673 Exemption 8. ""Sin and Flesh"": The New England Tribes: Englishmen and IndiansPART III: WAR; 9. ""Midnight Shrieks and Soul-Amazing Moanes"": The Rhode Island Government and King Philip's War; 10. ""A Bulit out of Everi Bush"": War, Continued; 11. ""To Looke to Our Selefs"": Ascribing Motives to a Quaker Government in Wartime; 12. ""Witnesses to the Life of Innocency"": A Testimony from Rhode Island Quakers; 13. ""Run the Hazard"": The Individual Quaker in King Philip's War; 14. ""The Rectification of the Heart"": Around the Periphery of War; 15. ""All Things Have Their Beginnings"" Appendix 1. The 1660 DeclarationAppendix 2. The 1673 Exemption; Appendix 3. The Rhode Island Testimony; Appendix 4. ""The Taste of the World in Our Own Mouths"": Problems of Historical Interpretation; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W |
Responsibility: | Meredith Baldwin Weddle. |
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... a significant contribution to understanding the complexity of early Quaker theology, especially in a trans-Atlantic context. * The Journal of Religion * ... a detailed historical analysis. * The Journal of Religion * [Weddle's] research is excellent among difficult and thin sources. Nobody will be able to study pacifism in the early modern period without following her lead in conceptualization and empirical testing ... stimulating ... accomplished book. * Dutch Review of Church History * A thought-provoking study of early Quaker pacifism. * The Journal of Ecclesiastical History * A convincing demonstration of the confusing and confused origins of Quaker pacifism. * The Journal of American History * Read more...


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