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Walking in the Way of Peace

Quaker Pacifism in the Seventeenth Century
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This book investigates the historical context, meaning and expression of early Quaker pacifism in England and its colonies. It 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 saintly pacifists. She 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 and political, rather than 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.

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Meredith Baldwin Weddle is an independent scholar who has taught at Yale, the State University of New York at Purchase, and Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria.
Release date NZ
May 24th, 2001
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  • General (US: Trade)
Illustrations
12 halftones, 2 maps
Pages
354
Dimensions
168x246x30
ISBN-13
9780195131383
Product ID
2198989

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