John Woolman and the Government of Christ

John Woolman and the Government of Christ
Author: Jon R. Kershner
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2018-03-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0190868082

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 theological vision for colonial American society. Drawing on Woolman's entire body of writing, Jon R. Kershner reveals that the theological and spiritual underpinnings of Woolman's alternative vision for the British Atlantic world were nothing less than a direct, spiritual christocracy on earth, what Woolman referred to as "the Government of Christ." Kershner argues that Woolman's theology is best understood as apocalyptic-centered on a supernatural revelation of Christ's immediate presence governing all aspects of human affairs, and envisaging the impending victory of God's reign over apostasy. John Woolman and the Government of Christ explores the theological reasoning behind Woolman's critique of the burgeoning trans-Atlantic economy, slavery, and British imperial conflicts, and fundamentally reinterprets 18th-century Quakerism by demonstrating the continuing influence of early Quaker apocalypticism.

Journal of the Life... of Daniel Stanton

Journal of the Life... of Daniel Stanton
Author: Daniel Stanton
Publisher: Applewood Books
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2009-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1429018062

With our American Philosophy and Religion series, Applewood reissues many primary sources published throughout American history. Through these books, scholars, interpreters, students, and non-academics alike can see the thoughts and beliefs of Americans who came before us.

Journal of the Life, Travels, and Gospel Labours of a Faithful Minister of Jesus Christ, Daniel Stanton

Journal of the Life, Travels, and Gospel Labours of a Faithful Minister of Jesus Christ, Daniel Stanton
Author: Daniel Stanton
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2017-12-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9780265787915

Excerpt from Journal of the Life, Travels, and Gospel Labours of a Faithful Minister of Jesus Christ, Daniel Stanton: Late of Philadelphia, in the Province of Pennsylvania H1 5 concern to travel in the fervice of truth continuing, and the meetin g having full unity with him therein, he embarked in the fifth month, 1748, accompanied by our dear friend, Samuel Nottingham, in a veffel bound for Barbadoes, and having vifited the few meetings in that ifland, they went by way of Antigua to Tortola, where they continued fome time, having fome difficulty to get a paffage to Eu rope; and their voyage thither was at tended with fome fingular hazards and dangers, which occafioned their landing in Ireland; where our friend Daniel con tinned fome months, vifiting the meet ings of Friends in that kingdom -and after he apprehended himfelf clear, went over to England, and vifited the meet ings generally in that nation, and in Wales and Scotland, where his meek. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.