Walking in the Way of Peace: Quaker Pacifism in the Seventeenth Century - Weddle, Meredith Baldwin (, Yale, State University of New York and Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria) - Libros - Oxford University Press Inc - 9780195383638 - 2009
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This book investigates the historical context, meaning, and expression of early Quaker pacifism in England and its colonies. Weddle focuses primarily on one historical moment - King Philip's War, which confronted the New England Quakers with the practical need to define the parameters of their peace testimony. Weddle has uncovered records of many Quakers engaged in or abetting acts of violence, thus debunking the traditional historiography of Quakers as saintlypacifists. Weddle shows that Quaker pacifism existed as a doctrinal position before the 1660 crackdown on religious sectarians, but that it was a radical theological position rather than a pragmatic strategy. She thus convincingly refutes the Marxist argument that Quakers acted from economic andpolitical, and not religious motives. She examines in detail how the Quakers' theology worked - how, for example, their interpretation of certain biblical passages affected their politics - and traces the evolution of the concept of pacifism from a doctrine that was essentially about protecting the state of one's own soul to one concerned with the consequences of violence to other human beings.


364 pages, 22 black and white halftone illustrations

Medios de comunicación Libros     Paperback Book   (Libro con tapa blanda y lomo encolado)
Publicado 2009
ISBN13 9780195383638
Editores Oxford University Press Inc
Páginas 368
Dimensiones 152 × 229 × 21 mm   ·   539 g
Lengua Inglés  

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