Quakers Reading Mystics
Title | Quakers Reading Mystics PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Birkel |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 124 |
Release | 2018-07-17 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9004373748 |
This study explores the reception of mystical texts among Quakers, looking at Robert Barclay and John Cassian, Sarah L. Grubb and Jeanne Guyon, Caroline Stephen and Johannes Tauler, Rufus Jones and Jacob Boehme, and Teresina Havens and Buddhist texts.
Quaker Quicks - Practical Mystics
Title | Quaker Quicks - Practical Mystics PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer Kavanagh |
Publisher | John Hunt Publishing |
Pages | 83 |
Release | 2019-12-14 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1789042801 |
Are Quakers mystics? What does that mean? How does it translate into how we are and what we do in the world? 'Jennifer Kavanagh has written a lovely book which I found to be to be compelling reading. In a very practical way she explains the meaning of mysticism for Quakers and how an experience, which some might regard as being esoteric, can be truly meaningful for many today.' Terry Waite Practical Mystics is Jennifer Kavanagh's first addition to the burgeoning series Quaker Quicks, which examines every aspect of what it means to be a Quaker, from John Hunt Publishing imprint Christian Alternative.
Quakers and Mysticism
Title | Quakers and Mysticism PDF eBook |
Author | Jon R. Kershner |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 255 |
Release | 2019-08-29 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 3030216535 |
This book examines the nearly 400-year tradition of Quaker engagements with mystical ideas and sources. It provides a fresh assessment of the way tradition and social context can shape a religious community while interplaying with historical and theological antecedents within the tradition. Quaker concepts such as “Meeting,” the “Light,” and embodied spirituality, have led Friends to develop an interior spirituality that intersects with extra-Quaker sources, such as those found in Jakob Boehme, Abū Bakr ibn Tufayl, the Continental Quietists, Kabbalah, Buddhist thought, and Luyia indigenous religion. Through time and across cultures, these and other conversations have shaped Quaker self-understanding and, so, expanded previous models of how religious ideas take root within a tradition. The thinkers engaged in this globally-focused, interdisciplinary volume include George Fox, James Nayler, Robert Barclay, Elizabeth Ashbridge, John Woolman, Hannah Whitall Smith, Rufus Jones, Inazo Nitobe, Howard Thurman, and Gideon W. H. Mweresa, among others.
The Quaker Reader
Title | The Quaker Reader PDF eBook |
Author | Jessamyn West |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
MIND THE ONENESS
Title | MIND THE ONENESS PDF eBook |
Author | REX. AMBLER |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780948232718 |
Quakeriana Latina: Quaker Texts in Latin from the 1670s
Title | Quakeriana Latina: Quaker Texts in Latin from the 1670s PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Birkel |
Publisher | Brill Research Perspectives in |
Pages | 96 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9789004442733 |
"Quakeriana Latina: Quaker texts in Latin from the 1670s juxtaposes translations of texts written in Latin by arguably the finest early Quaker theologians, George Keith and Robert Barclay. A commentary provides philological, historical, and theological perspectives. The works by Keith are two substantial letters to German polymath and Christian Kabbalist, Baron Christian Knorr von Rosenroth. The chief concerns of these letters are Christian appropriation of concepts from Jewish mysticism and eschatology. In the year before Keith began this correspondence, Barclay wrote his Animadversiones, a response to an attack from the Dutch Calvinist, Nikolaus Arnold, on his Theses Theologicae. Thus, both writers illustrate how a Quaker might write to a non-Quaker, even non-British, audience, one in a persuasive tone, and the other in a more polemical mode. Together, these texts cast new light on Quakerism in the 1670s"--
Quaker Quicks - Quakers Do What! Why?
Title | Quaker Quicks - Quakers Do What! Why? PDF eBook |
Author | Rhiannon Grant |
Publisher | John Hunt Publishing |
Pages | 85 |
Release | 2020-07-31 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1789044065 |
Structured around questions which non-Quakers often ask, this book explores Quaker practices, explaining them in the context of Quaker theology and present-day diversity. It describes how Quakers make decisions and why they have preferred this method, as well as looking at the Quaker rejection of common Christian practices like baptism. Each short chapter gives an answer, considers why that is so, describes some of the diversity within Quaker groups, and points to other resources which could be used to find out more.