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Jennings, Stuart B. (2010) Review of Quaker constitutionalism and the political thought of John Dickinson, by Calvert, J. E. Church History, Vol.79 (No.2). pp. 477-479. ISSN 0009-6407
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Abstract
The Quaker impulse to reform and regulate both their meetings and wider society according to their religious experience of "the light within" lay at the heart of the movement’s missionary zeal from its earliest days. Yet for both the social and political historian, the question of how a spontaneous, individualist, experiential, and dissenting religious tradition in revolutionary England evolved into a structured, bureaucratic system that was firstly turned inward upon its members to preserve a unity amongst themselves and later outward toward civil society and government has generated much discussion. Within an American context, in particular the Pennsylvania experiment, this development raises further questions about how this process amongst Friends was to feed and inform the evolution of federal ideas across the other colonies.
| Item Type: | Book Review |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BR Christianity |
| Divisions: | Administration > Chaplaincy |
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Society of Friends -- History, Society of Friends -- Political aspects |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Church History |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| ISSN: | 0009-6407 |
| Book Title: | Quaker constitutionalism and the political thought of John Dickinson |
| Date: | 2010 |
| Volume: | Vol.79 |
| Number: | No.2 |
| Number of Pages: | 3 |
| Page Range: | pp. 477-479 |
| Identification Number: | 10.1017/S000964071000034X |
| Publication Status: | Published |
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access |
| Description: | Review of: Calvert, J. E. (2009). Quaker constitutionalism and the political thought of John Dickinson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. |
| URI: | http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/5785 |
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