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Lädt ... The Covenant Crucified: Quakers and the Rise of Capitalismvon Douglas Gwyn
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Doug Gwyn has researched and written extensively on early Quakers in 17th-century England. His other books include Apocalypse of the Word, and Seekers Found. He has taught at the Pendle Hill Quaker Study Center near Philadelphia, and at Woodbrooke in Birmingham, England. Doug has also worked with the American Friends Service Committee, and is Pastor of First Friends Church, Richmond, Indiana. The Covenant Crucified combines the scholarly and prophetic to compare "covenant", uniting people under the care of a transcendent God, and "contract", uniting them primarily through secular visions of self-interest. "This book, part of Doug Gwyn's trilogy on early Quaker history, is critical to our understanding of early Friends and how the movement changed in the first decades. Gwyn outlines the highly distinctive nature of the Quaker covenant of light, and how that was transformed within a generation into a more worldly contractual understanding. It is also a call to Quakers today to recover a sense of covenant for the journey ahead." - Ben Pink Dandelion, Quaker Studies tutor, University of Birmingham/Woodbrooke Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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The early chapters of the book provide an historical context of these two words, with chapters on the Early Christian Church, the English Civil War and subsequent Puritan revolution; the first stirrings of the Quaker Movement, and the persecutions they suffered under Charles 2nd.
Gwyn's insights are critical to our understanding of early Friends and how the movement changed in its first decades. He describes the highly distinctive nature of the Quaker ‘Covenant of Light’ and explains the reasons why it was transformed within a generation into a more worldly contractual understanding. ( )