Walking in the way of peace [[electronic resource] ] : Quaker pacifism in the seventeenth century / / Meredith Baldwin Weddle

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910465201603321
• Autore: Weddle Meredith Baldwin <1939->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001
• ISBN: 0-19-538363-X; 1-4237-2649-9; 0-19-803009-6; 9786610472710; 1-280-47271-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (365 p.)
• Disciplina: 261.8/73/088286
• Soggetti: Quakers - New England - History - 17th century; Quakers - England - History - 17th century; King Philip's War, 1675-1676 - Religious aspects - Society of Friends; Electronic books.; New England Church history 17th century; England Church history 17th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-339) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Methods and Terms; Introduction; PART I: THE PEACE TESTIMONY; Prologue; 1. ""And the Shout of a King Is amongst Us""; 2. ""A Killinge Instrument We May neither Forme, nor Beare"": The Peace Testimony; 3. ""Fire at the Mast"": The Practice of Peace; PART II: NEW ENGLAND; 4. ""Bold Boyes and Blasphemers"": Quakers in Early New England; 5. ""The Habitation of the Hunted-Christ"": Rhode Island and Providence Plantations; 6. ""Times of Motion and Danger"": Reacting to Fear of War, 1667-1673; 7. ""Fighting against the Minde of God"": The 1673 Exemption; 8. ""Sin and Flesh"": The New England Tribes: Englishmen and IndiansPART III: WAR; 9. ""Midnight Shrieks and Soul-Amazing Moanes"": The Rhode Island Government and King Philip's War; 10. ""A Bulit out of Everi Bush"": War, Continued; 11. ""To Looke to Our Selefs"": Ascribing Motives to a Quaker Government in Wartime; 12. ""Witnesses ; to the Life of Innocency"": A Testimony from Rhode Island Quakers; 13. ""Run the Hazard"": The Individual Quaker in King Philip's War; 14. ""The Rectification of the Heart"": Around the Periphery of War; 15. ""All Things Have Their Beginnings""; Appendix 1. The 1660 DeclarationAppendix 2. The 1673 Exemption; Appendix 3. The Rhode Island Testimony; Appendix 4. ""The Taste of the World in Our Own Mouths"": Problems of Historical Interpretation; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W
• Sommario/riassunto: This text investigates the historical context, meaning and expression of early Quaker pacifism in England and its colonies. The text focuses primarily on King Philip's War, which allowed New England Quakers to define their peace testimony.