Apocalypse Of The Word

BY DOUGLAS GWYN
Gwyn emphasizes the apocalyptic perspective behind George Fox's declaration that "Christ has come to teach his people himself" and describes how it affected Fox's view of preaching, worship and Church order. This work helps explain the urgency of the message that sparked the early Quaker movement. "This highly readable work develops the religious thought of George Fox in new and fresh ways and constitutes a major contribution to early Quaker research." - Dean Freiday.

Friends United Press 1986 241 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

The Covenant Crucified

Quakerism And The Rise Of Capitalism

BY DOUGLAS GWYN
Doug Gwyn has researched and written extensively on early Quakers in 17th-century England. 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 is critical to our understanding of early Friends and how the movement changed during the first decades. He outlines the 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

QHS 2006 404 PP Paper

$36.00 (low stock)

Heaven On Earth

Quakers And The Second Coming

BY BEN PINK-DANDELION, DOUGLAS GWYN, TIMOTHY PEAT
Almost impossible to summarize, a book exploding with ideas and insights. The experience of Christ was so central to the lives of early friends, that it was as if they were living in the second coming. Peat and Gwyn look at Paul's Gospel, and Quaker beliefs and practices. Pink Dandelion looks at how this unrealized idea of the second coming has influenced Quaker thought today. All copies suffer from poor quality binding.keep a rubber band handy!

Curlew 1998 271 PP. Paper

$22.00 (in stock)

Report From The Middle

Reflections On Divisions Among Friends Today - Two Essays

BY DOUGLAS GWYN, FOREWORD BY ELIZABETH CAZDEN
The two essays published here are "Sense and Sensibilities: Quaker Bispirituality Today" and "Standing with the Lamb," the talk that Doug Gwyn presented at the FUM triennial in 2005. He says, "Because the light of Christ is in all people, spiritual freedom is followed immediately by a humanistic, civil implication. If Christ is to have freedom to work with whomever he chooses, then human society must be a level playing field. Society must be free, open, inclusive, egalitarian, just. Excluding people is excluding potential channels for Christ's work."

Beacon Hill Friends House 2005 36 PP Paper

$4.00 (in stock)

Seekers Found

Atonement In Early Quaker Experience

BY DOUGLAS GWYN
"The main subjects are the Seekers of the 1640s and their forebears, and the Friends who catalyzed many Seeker themes into a dynamic, transformative movement. Gwyn's excellent study demonstrates the unique charisma of early Friends, their ability to hold opposing forces and ideas in creative tension, thus unleashing great spiritual energy. By comparison modern seekers, including many of today's Friends, are experiencing some of the same stages Gwyn identifies in those three centuries years earlier, but without embodying the tension." - Martha Paxson Grundy

Pendle Hill 2000 410 PP. Paper

$20.00 (in stock)

Towards Tragedy/reclaiming Hope

Literature, Theology And Sociology In Conversation

BY BEN PINK-DANDELION, DOUGLAS GWYN, RACHEL MUERS, BRIAN PHILLIPS, AND RICHARD STRUM
The 'death of tragedy' in the modern era has been debated in recent years, largely in terms of literature and western culture in general. Today, any catastrophe is likely to be labeled a 'tragedy', without any inference of a larger, transcendent horizon or providential design. This book offers new perspectives on the idea of the 'death of tragedy', taking England and the Religious Society of Friends in particular as a case study. The different disciplinary perspectives of the contributing authors bring literature, history, theology and sociology into a creative and revealing conversation.

Ashgate 2003 157 PP. Cloth

$35.00 (in stock)