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  • Faith and Practice

    This First Edition of Northern Yearly Meeting’s Faith and Practice supplies our statement of faith and descriptions of Quaker practice as we aspire to live our faith in the upper Midwest of the United States. The faith section includes perspectives on the Religious Society of Friends' historically rooted Testimonies (Simplicity, Peace, Integrity, Community, Equality, Care for the Earth), and this ... Meer lezen

    3,17 €

  • The Quakers

    A Very Short Introduction

    door Pink Dandelion ...
    Serie series Very Short Introductions
    The Quakers are a fascinating religious group both in their origins and in the variety of reinterpretations of the faith since. Emerging from the social unrest of the English civil war, the Quakers have gone on to have an influence way beyond their numbers: be it their continued stance against war or their pioneering work against slavery. At the same time, Quakers maintain a distinctive worship ... Meer lezen

    7,27 €

  • Advices & Queries

    Advices and queries designed to challenge and inspire Australian Quakers in their personal lives and in their life as a religious community. ... Meer lezen

    5,43 € of Gratis met Kobo Plus

  • Prayer - 10th Anniversary Edition

    Finding the Heart's True Home

    Best-selling author Richard J. Foster offers a warm, compelling, and sensitive primer on prayer, a foundational guide for Christian living that helps us to understand, experience, and practice it in its many forms—from the simple prayer of beginning again to unceasing prayer. He clarifies the prayer process, answers common misconceptions, and shows the way into prayers of contemplation, healing, ... Meer lezen

    3,89 €

  • Living the Quaker Way

    Discover the Hidden Happiness in the Simple Life

    door Philip Gulley ...
    A Publishers Weekly “Top 10 in Religion” selection.“This is nothing less than the gospel itself…a much-needed book.”—FR. RICHARD ROHR, OFM,Center for Action and Contemplation, Albuquerque, New Mexico“Living the Quaker Way is a treasure trove of practical wisdom about what it means to bear witness to our hope for a better world.”—Parker J. Palmer, author of Let Your Life SpeakPhilip Gulley invites ... Meer lezen

    10,17 €

  • The Shakers

    History, Culture and Craft

    door Lesley Herzberg ...
    Serie Boek 813 - Shire Library USA
    Shaker handicrafts' dignified simplicity is perhaps our greatest example of form following function. An off-shoot of Quakerism, the Shakers sought to create a heaven on earth through both worship and diligent work. Practical yet attractive, the furniture, textiles, tools and machinery of the Shakers are utterly distinctive and became famous the world over during the twentieth century, with certain ... Meer lezen

    9,28 €

  • A Living Faith

    An Historical and Comparative Study of Quaker Beliefs

    door Wilmer A Cooper ...
    A systematic theological reflection on Quaker beliefs. Widely used in theology courses. Includes questions for use in group discussions and a glossary of theological terms. ... Meer lezen

    9,95 € of Gratis met Kobo Plus

  • Quaker Quicks - Quakers and Chocolate

    door Helen Holt ...
    Cadbury’s Dairy Milk, Rowntree’s Kit Kat, and Fry’s Turkish Delight are all well-known chocolate treats. The three 'cocoa families' who indulged our chocolate cravings for over a century were all Quakers, and this affected both how they amassed their fortunes and how they spent them. George and Richard Cadbury in Birmingham, and Joseph Rowntree in York, all strove to improve the lives of those ... Meer lezen

    6,70 €

  • Freedom from Exploitation

    Christian Responses to Modern-Day Slavery

    Serie Boek 5 - Snapshot Series
    Confronting Human Trafficking in Our MidstWe live in an age marked by injustice and exploitation. Human trafficking thrives in the shadows of our communities. Millions are being exploited by those who see them only as commodities to be bought and sold How can Christians respond?Authoritative and deeply compassionate, Freedom from Exploitation offers an actionable roadmap for believers in pursuit ... Meer lezen

    2,72 € of Gratis met Kobo Plus

  • Kristen humanisme

    En dansk kvækers betragtninger

    door Jens Steensberg ...
    ”I den ’bibelmaraton’, jeg deltager i, er vi nået til Jeremias og Klagesangene. Det Gamle Testamente er på mange måder uhyggelig læsning. Det er også lidt træls med jeremiaderne i denne lektie. Er det mon den samme ’Gud’, som jeg prøver at forholde mig til?”Jens Steensberg har samlet en række af sine radioforedrag og artikler, der til sammen tegner et billede af hans egen udvikling fra hvad han ... Meer lezen

    6,56 €

  • Hope for a Better World

    Growing Up Quaker in the Midwest

    This book tells the story of how I grew up in a Wilburite Quaker family in Ohio and attended Scattergood Friends School in Iowa. I give an overview of Quakers who originated as the The Religious Society of Friends in seventeenth-century England. I tell about Wilburite Friends, which are much different from most Quakers. Their practices are close to early English Friends. I tell how the Blackburn ... Meer lezen

    9,09 €

  • John Woolman and the Government of Christ

    A Colonial Quaker's Vision for the British Atlantic World

    door Jon R. Kershner ...
    In 1758, a Quaker tailor and sometime shopkeeper and school teacher stood up in a Quaker meeting and declared that the time had come for Friends to reject the practice of slavery. That man was John Woolman, and that moment was a significant step, among many, toward the abolition of slavery in the United States. Woolman's antislavery position was only one essential piece of his comprehensive ... Meer lezen

    93,70 €

  • The Complete Writings and Selected Correspondence of John Dickinson

    Volume 1

    door John Dickinson ...
    Serie Boek 1 - The Complete Writings and Selected Correspondence of John Dickinson
    The Complete Writings and Selected Correspondence of John Dickinson, vol. 1 inaugurates a multivolume documentary edition that will, for the first time ever, provide the complete collection of everything Dickinson published on public affairs over the course of his life. The documents include essays, articles, broadsides, resolutions, petitions, declarations, constitutions, regulations, legislation ... Meer lezen

    34,76 €

  • A Portraiture of Quakerism (Vol. 1-3) (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Education and Discipline, Social Manners, Civil and Political Economy, Religious Principles and Character of the Society of Friends

    Thomas Clarkson's A Portraiture of Quakerism (1806), issued in three volumes, is a systematic account of the Society of Friends: its principles, discipline, worship, education, manners, testimonies against war, oaths, luxury, and slavery. Written in lucid eighteenth-century prose, the work blends ethnographic observation, moral philosophy, and apologetic explanation. It belongs to a period when ... Meer lezen

    Was 2,99 € Nu 1,49 € of Gratis met Kobo Plus

  • The Light in Their Consciences

    Early Quakers in Britain, 1646–1666

    door Rosemary Moore ...
    Serie series The New History of Quakerism
    Hailed upon its publication as “history at its finest” by H. Larry Ingle and called “the essential foundation to explore early Quaker history” by Sixteenth Century Journal, Rosemary Moore’s The Light in Their Consciences is the most comprehensive, readable history of the first decades of the life and thought of The Society of Friends. This twentieth anniversary edition of Moore’s pathbreaking work ... Meer lezen

    26,49 €

  • A Book of Quaker Saints

    door L.V. Hodgkin ...
    Biographies of saints for children, first published in 1917. According to Wikipedia: "The Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers, was founded in England in the 17th century as a Christian religious denomination by people who were dissatisfied with the existing denominations and sects of Christianity. Historians generally credit George Fox with being the principal co-founder or ... Meer lezen

    0,90 € of Gratis met Kobo Plus

  • Quaker Women, 1800–1920

    Studies of a Changing Landscape

    Serie series The New History of Quakerism
    This collection investigates the world of nineteenth-century Quaker women, bringing to light the issues and challenges Quaker women experienced and the dynamic ways in which they were active agents of social change, cultural contestation, and gender transgression in the nineteenth century.New research illuminates the complexities of Quaker testimonies of equality, slavery, and peace and how they ... Meer lezen

    26,49 €

  • Letting Go

    Steps in the Spiritual Life

    "*Give over thine own willing, give over thy own running, give over thine own desiring to know or be anything." -*Isaac PeningtonThis pamphlet explores what might get in the way of being open to the Spirit, and the joy and freedom of letting it go. The clutter that separates us from God, our essential selves, or our life's purpose is different for everyone, and different at each stage of life. It ... Meer lezen

    8,47 €

  • Quakers

    door Peter Furtado ...
    Serie Boek 752 - Shire Library
    Though there have never been many Quakers, these small numbers belie the sect's tremendous impact, both historical and contemporary.Quakerism has produced an astonishing and disproportionate number of eminent thinkers, scientists, industrialists and businessmen, who are united not only by their success but by their commitment to philanthropy and social justice. Quakers also played an important ... Meer lezen

    9,28 €

  • Between God and History

    The Human Situation Exemplified in Quaker Thought and Practice

    Serie series Sir Halley Stewart Trust: Publications
    Originally published in 1959, this book was planned as a second contribution towards critique and apologetics of Quakerism, the first being a booklet called Friends and Truth published in 1956. While the author did not lose sight of that original intention, the scope of the book widened in the writing. It was hoped that it would make a contribution from the Quaker point of view, to the study of ... Meer lezen

    41,51 €

  • An Inquiry into the Accordancy of War

    With the Principles of Christianity, and an Examination of the Philosophical Reasoning by Which it is Defended, with Observations on Some of the Causes of War and on Some of its Effects

    door Jonathan Dymond ...
    The object of the following pages is, to give a view of the principal arguments which maintain the indefensibility and impolicy of war, and to examine the reasoning which is advanced in its favor.The author has not found, either in those works which treat exclusively of war, or in those which refer to it as part of a general system, any examination of the question that embraced it in all its ... Meer lezen

    0,99 € of Gratis met Kobo Plus

  • Not A Hardier Hardy Could Be Found: further examination into Elizabeth Jane Hardy

    Hardy Genealogy

    door Andrew Kirby ...
    Serie series Hardy Genealogy
    David Hardy the younger had an older brother named David. Why was this? The answer comes in yet another adoption in the family proven by official records. David the younger was adopted from the Natick Praying Indians Community. This book tells the story of how this was discovered and also into other stories of Elizabeth Hardy's heritage.A Gathering Point: Natick served as a sanctuary and hub for ... Meer lezen

    4,49 € of Gratis met Kobo Plus

  • I Love You, Miss Huddleston

    And Other Inappropriate Longings of My Indiana Childhood

    door Philip Gulley ...
    In the vein of Bill Bryson’s The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, with a dash of some of the homegrown nostalgia of The Dangerous Book for Boys and A Prairie Home Companion, humorist Philip Gulley (Front Porch Tales, Home to Harmony) tells of his coming of age in small-town Indiana.It was a time of questionable role models, half-baked schemes, and unrelieved and happy chaos.Small Town ... Meer lezen

    9,99 €

  • An Invitation to Quaker Eldering

    On Being Faithful to the Ministry of Spiritual Nurture Among Friends

    There is a yearning and a need among Friends for a book about the Quaker spiritual practice, ministry, and discipline of eldering. A new emergence of eldering, part of a continuum beginning with early Quakers, has been bubbling up to meet the needs of our times. While there is no going back to the Quakerism of yore, we do have within us the same Spirit that has always brought forth the gifts of ... Meer lezen

    10,60 € of Gratis met Kobo Plus