Pub Date : 2023-12-04DOI: 10.3828/quaker.2023.28.2.4
Jay David Miller
Language about strangers, including ‘the heart of a stranger’ specifically, appears with frequency throughout the writings of John Woolman. This article argues that the stranger, inspired to a great extent by passages from the Bible, was a central philosophical and theological concept around which Woolman’s thought was gathered. For Woolman the stranger also functioned as a literary figure that united various parts of his work in what I refer to comprehensively as an aesthetics of the stranger. Ultimately, Woolman writing about strangers reflected his understanding of Jesus Christ as a stranger, which was the ground from which all his thinking originated. This article was published open access under a CC BY licence: https://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0 .
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Pub Date : 2023-12-04DOI: 10.3828/quaker.2023.28.2.7
Michael L. Birkel, S. Angell
Douglas V. Steere and D. Elton Trueblood were among the most influential Quaker voices in the middle decades of the twentieth century among liberal and evangelical Friends, respectively. Each turned to John Woolman’s writings as inspiration for the needs of their times, from matters of spirituality and moral example to social justice and ecumenism. This article was published open access under a CC BY licence: https://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0 .
道格拉斯·v·斯蒂尔(Douglas V. Steere)和d·埃尔顿·特鲁布拉德(D. Elton Trueblood)分别是20世纪中期自由派和福音派教友中最有影响力的教友派人士。每个人都把约翰·伍尔曼的作品作为灵感，以满足他们时代的需要，从精神和道德榜样到社会正义和普世主义。本文以CC BY许可方式发布:https://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0。
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Pub Date : 2023-12-04DOI: 10.3828/quaker.2023.28.2.3
Jean R. Soderlund
John Woolman built upon Quaker principles and earlier critiques by Friends in New Jersey and Pennsylvania to oppose enslavement and the rum trade among members of the Religious Society of Friends. By the 1760s, after the devastation of the Seven Years’ War, he recognised how English colonisation had destroyed Native communities, linking colonialism with enslavement and rum. Woolman located these intersecting inequities in the focus of English families on acquiring and perpetuating wealth. Unlike his public testimony against involuntary bondage, his writings against colonialism in his journal and essay ‘A Plea for the Poor’ remained unpublished until after his death. This article was published open access under a CC BY licence: https://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0 .
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Pub Date : 2023-12-04DOI: 10.3828/quaker.2023.28.2.2
Rachel Muers
This paper explores early Quaker uses of ‘the Seed’ and of ‘the day of small things’, and the theology of power and powerlessness that emerges from a consideration of these key images. I argue for a theological account of power that begins from the experience of ‘being empowered’ through the active presence of the Holy Spirit – an experience which I take to be central for, although far from unique or or even distinctive to, early Quakerism. I argue that divine empowerment, expressed and explored in reflections on the seed and on the day of small things, sets up an economy of power that avoids the ‘power struggle’ that often characterises representations of power and its distribution, within and beyond theology. This article was published open access under a CC BY licence: https://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0 .
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Pub Date : 2023-12-04DOI: 10.3828/quaker.2023.28.2.8
Paul Rogers
2023 marked the 50th anniversary of Peace Studies – a discipline which has been closely connected with the Quaker community – at Bradford. Peace Studies as an academic centre of teaching and research at Bradford University was set up in 1973, starting its first postgraduate course in 1974 and welcoming its first undergraduate students the following year. It would not have been established without the determination of a group of Quakers to see such a centre in a UK university, and this Research Note looks primarily at the first 25 years and how the department came about and survived the many internal and external challenges. It also includes some personal reflections, as I joined the department 45 years ago and have retained a close connection through to the present. This article was published open access under a CC BY licence: https://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0 .
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Pub Date : 2023-12-04DOI: 10.3828/quaker.2023.28.2.6
Mike Heller, Ron Rembert
Rufus Jones observed that John Woolman was ‘almost an incarnation of the beatitudes’. Mike Heller and Ron Rembert find this an intriguing doorway into understanding Woolman’s legacy. They have chosen to focus on one beatitude, ‘The meek shall inherit the earth’, because ‘meek’ and related terms appear often in Woolman’s writings. They find meekness an essential aspect of Woolman’s spiritual journey and his ministry, both of which were grounded in faith-filled, Christ-centred living. Meekness became for him a challenge and an aspiration as he sought to distinguish between authentic and feigned meekness, to be wary of the desire to please others, and to understand our spiritual versus materialistic inheritance. In addition to meekness regarding individuals, Woolman posed the possibility of it being a quality sensed within a Quaker meeting, which enabled the group to take on values and behaviours guiding their interaction and work in the world. This article was published open access under a CC BY licence: https://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0 .
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Pub Date : 2023-12-04DOI: 10.3828/quaker.2023.28.2.5
Geoffrey Plank
In 1816 the Friends Tract Association published an excerpt from John Woolman’s first antislavery essay Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes with every reference to slavery edited out. The editors wanted to highlight Woolman’s ‘general’ message, that those who maintained their health, lived humbly and served God were rewarded with true happiness. In the excerpt, using biblical citations and an invocation of the early Quaker colonisation of the Delaware Valley, Woolman asserted that God rewards his servants. The excerpt successfully highlights this easily overlooked feature of Woolman’s lifelong ministry, but by omitting Woolman’s discussion of slavery it violated his original intention. The excerpt appeared in the last year of Quaker consensus on the issue of slavery. The editors believed they could set the issue aside because they thought the Quakers were in agreement on it, but shortly after their excerpt appeared the Quaker consensus on slavery fell apart. This article was published open access under a CC BY licence: https://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0 .
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{"title":"John Woolman Special Issue","authors":"Jon R. Kershner","doi":"10.3828/quaker.2023.28.2.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/quaker.2023.28.2.10","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article was published open access under a CC BY licence:\u0000 https://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0\u0000 .\u0000","PeriodicalId":36790,"journal":{"name":"Quaker Studies","volume":"9 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138603055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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