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POLITICAL OBLIGATION AND CIVIL DISSENT IN QUAKER THEOLOGICO- POLITICAL THOUGHT JANE E. CALVERT Tthe most important political forces in American history. When oday most Friends know intuitively that ... heads.1 Yet, although their actions have been well documented-their vital role in securing religious liberty, abolition, and women's rights-the Quaker contribution to the ideas and political processes of
and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/qrt ANTHONY BENEZET’S (1713-1784) REVOLUTIONARY RHETORIC: SLAVERY AND SENTIMENTALISM IN QUAKER POLITICAL REMONSTRANCE Jon R. KeRshneR
too easy to justify violence and the degrading treatment of others, based on sexuality, race/ethnicity, gendered or non-gendered identities, forms of embodiment, class, nation and political affiliation
critical wound of the heart generated by unjust psychosomatic repression, as well as by social, political, economic, and cultural oppression. It is entrenched in the hearts of victims of sin and violence
radicals during the Commonwealth—political forces are at play to reverse all the efforts of the past half century to further social justice, a book like Face to Face can revive hope in the mighty acts of God ... professor of philosophy and religion. Vail Palmer notes that this book began in 1991 when he offered to teach a course on how early Friends used the Bible for Reedwood Friends Church’s Center for Christian
impossibility of developing a generally acceptable Christian political philosophy. Then, second, its worship came to reflect two apparently opposite poles: the sacrificial worship of the Temple and the analytic
of Quaker research in much needed ways. While the social histories, political concerns, spiritual interests, and social-action contributions of early Friends have been explored extensively, and while ... political platforms and polemics. On hermeneutics and ecclesiology, it is the gathered community of Christ that partners together with God in the social transformation of the world—operating by the way of
This paper examines the multiple elements of Korean Quaker Ham Sok-Heon’s religious, political, and theological identity from the perspective of hybridity, with a special focus on the impact of that ... Christianity Commons - Article 4 THE COMPLEX HYBRIDITY OF HAM SOK-HEON DAN CHRISTY RANDAZZO TSok-Heon?s religious, political, and theological identity from the his paper examines the multiple elements of
involves communication systems, the social or physical sciences, philosophy and religion, history, political science, business, fine and applied arts, mathematics, or whatever, our curriculum is a sanctuary ... an ancient admonition from Epictetus: “What is the first business of one who studies philosophy? To part with self-conceit.”9 A biblical writer, John the Elder, concerned for integrity in both truth
the opening and closing portions of Seekers Found. In the Introduction and first two chapters, Gwyn used a typol34 • T. VAIL PALMER, JR. ogy developed by political scientist Michael Oakeshott, in an ... Operationalism is not a theory of truth but “a program in philosophy of science”13 or, at best, a theory of meaning, i.e., what does a term or a statement mean? What we have, then, is not a symmetrical network of
future scholarship is needed to address Quakerism there within its own context. Ethnographic research could trace the relationship of belief and practices to experiences of poverty, political turmoil ... . 24. Jeffrey Dudiak and Laura Rediehs, “Quakers, Philosophy, and Truth,” in The Oxford Handbook of Quaker Studies, ed. Pink Dandelion and Stephen Angell (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013 ), 511
the victims of rumour and slander and quickly become cast in the role of scapegoats, especially when political unrest or natural disasters are threatening the stability of the wider group. The first ... Quakers did not lack opponents who sought to blame them for the political and spiritual unrest of their times. According to Grant, there are identifiable techniques which apologists employ to defuse such
Communication. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2004. Nancy, Jean-Luc. Listening. Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. NY: Fordham University Press, 2007. Perry, Aaron. “The Phenomenological Role of ... Nancy, Listening, Perspectives in Continental Philosophy (NY: Fordham University Press, 2007). neutics, primarily through his understanding of text as the mediating ground where truth and meaning emerges
arrangements dealt adequately with group ambitions in the conflict. Moreover, the negotiators, especially on the Rwandan government side, did not fully represent the political realities back home. Peacemaking ... major structural change and redistribution of political and economic power brought not peace, but civil war and even genocide. We also misconstrued relations of force in a seemingly powerless country
live, as we do, with the results of our human free will. Kenyan scholar John Mbiti speaks of the understanding of time in African traditional religions and philosophy by using Swahili words. While ... in political ascendency. Everyone has heard the adage, if you give a person a fish their hunger will be satisfied for a day, if you teach them to fish, their hunger will be satisfied for a life time
Quaker history (Portrait in Grey, an excellent treatment of the political and religious situation out of which the Friends movement emerged), an invitation to Quaker unprogrammed worship (Encounter with ... of cats and dogs and drink far too much kombucha. JEFFREY DUDIAK is Professor of Philosophy at The King?s University in Edmonton, Canada, and adjunct Professor of Philosophy at the University of
context his execution was an act of political sacrifice. As John 11:50 reports, the high priest Caiaphas reckoned “it is better that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.” (See also ... Luke 23:2; John 19:12, 19; Mark 15:2; Matthew 27:11.) The political nature of the sacrifice is reflected in the political form of the execution: crucifixion by the political puppet-masters rather than
plans to offer a scientific critique, not one based on philosophy or theology, of current origin of life models. Specifically, he will address the lack of chemically valid proposals that explain the
Every aspect of political and social life was affected by such disputes. Biblical interpretation was not an academic pursuit, or even a purely theological interest, narrowly defined; it was the currency ... of political and social discussion. Quaker apologists entered an ongoing argument, and whatever new thing they offered had to be couched in terms of that argument. Central to the weightiest of