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Book List:Basic QuakerismCorporate Discernment
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)
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 (in stock)
BY GEORGE FOX Examples take from the Nickalls edition of Fox's journal that demonstrate his writing when he felt the most strongly led by the lord. These are the most powerful and often well known passages in his writings, but they are presented here as fully as possible to give context to popular quotations that are often misinterpreted. A fine Introduction to the unique ideas of Quakerism.
Tract Association 1986 45 PP. Paper
$1.50 (in stock)
A Set Of 9 Audio Files And 3 Text Files In .pdf Format
BY REX AMBLER, RE-MASTERED BY MADISON MONTHLY MEETING These are the remastered Mp3 audio files, prepared by Madison Monthly Meeting, of Rex Ambler's 'Experiment with Light' process lectures and meditations. Ambler examines early Friends experiences of the Light and then describes a practice for modern Friends that can help them access the Light to transform themselves and, then, to look more outwardly. "The discipline of light as practiced by early Friends is a practical discipline which opens up the truth about ourselves and the world and transforms our relationship with them." Audio files include a lecture by Rex Ambler on the process and five meditations for individuals and groups. An outline for a 4-session course included. Mp3 download.
Ambler 2009 MP3S AND PDF Audio
$12.00 (in stock)
George Fox & The Creation Of Quakerism
BY LARRY INGLE SECONDHAND. Now $60 in paperback if new. Good condition, but evidence of coffee stains on edge." First among Friends is a landmark work of Quaker history. Anyone who seeks to understand the origins and essence of the Society of Friends could do no better than to read it. Certainly every Friends' meeting should own it, and every Friend should read it. The book's scholarship is pioneering, its style solicitous, and its insights into the tumultuous, history-making life of George Fox are numerous and eye-opening. This benchmark work secures Larry Ingle's stature as the leading American historian of Quakerism." -Chuck Fager
Oxford Univ Press 1996 407 PP. Paper
$60.00 (in stock)
BY ALAN KOLP "Fresh winds of the spirit blows a fresh wind over the life and ministry of George Fox and its application to contemporary movements of the holy spirit. Alan Kolp has taken some of the most energetic phrases of Fox; like oceans of darkness, brokenness of the heart and Ocean of life to take a new look at spirituality in our day." -Richard Foster
Friends United Press 2007 143 PP. Paper
$18.00 (in stock)
The Story Of George Fox And The Quakers
BY JANE YOLEN First published over 30 years ago Friend: The Story of George Fox and the Quakers remains a timeless gift. It brings to light, for young and old Friends, the life and legacy of the founder of Quakerism. Fox was a larger than life personality in a turbulent period in English history. Jane Yolen's biography sets the context and chronicles Fox's spiritual development. Never released in a paperback edition, we are pleased to offer this new edition with a foreword by Larry Ingle. "Torn by war and wracked by uncertainty and doubt, the people of Fox's age wanted answers, and our author demonstrates those he offered." - Larry Ingle
Quaker Press of FGC 2005 192 PP. Paper
$13.95 (in stock)
BY CECIL W. SHARMAN George Fox first gathered Friends 340 years ago by "opening to them the way." Here all the key events of Fox's life have been placed within their historical setting. Brings out Fox's warmth of personality and his intense sense of mission.
Britain Yearly Meeting/Friends United Press 1991 256 PP. Paper
$22.00 (in stock)
EDITED BY HUGH MCGREGOR ROSS Hugh McGregor Ross has been fascinated with Fox's life and works since his teens, when he lived for 5 years at Fox's old home, Swarthmore Hall. His book George Fox in his own Words was a result of a close study of many overlooked writings of Fox. This book is an expanded, reedited and rewritten version of that text which makes use of his whole lifetime of research and thinking to make accessible to the modern reader the life and thought of George Fox.
Evertype 2008 220 PP. Paper
$16.95 (in stock)
EDITED BY HENRY CADBURY, WITH FOREWORDS BY RUFUS JONES, JIM PYM AND PAUL ANDERSON Fox was a healer as well as a minister and author, manifesting God's wondrous power in over 150 recorded instances of cures. These miracles were critical to spreading the word about Quakerism in the initial years. The text of this edition is the result of years of work by Henry Cadbury to make it accessible to the modern audience. New introductions by Paul Anderson and Jim Pym guide the reader to appreciate the place of this material in the overall understanding of Fox's contributions to Quakerism.
Quaker Press of FGC 2000 176 PP. Paper
$10.00 (in stock)
Friends For 350 Years
EDITED BY CHARLES L. CHERRY, CAROLINE L. CHERRY, AND J. WILLIAM FROST These papers emanated from an October 2002 conference at Swarthmore College celebrating the 350th anniversary of the founding of the Society of Friends in 1652. The theme of the conference was Fox's legacy: that is, how later generations of Friends saw Fox and his contemporaries and how those interpretations changed over the centuries. The papers in this collection offer a range of positions. Contributors include Melvin Eddy, Thomas Hamm, H. Larry Ingle, Chuck Fager, Rosemary Moore, Carole D. Spencer, Thomas Kennedy, Arthur O. Roberts, and Mary Ellen Chijioke.
Friends Historical Association 2006 149 PP Paper
A Book Of Quakerpsalms
COMMPILED AND ARRANGED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY T.H.S. WALLACE This is a new volume of poetic rendering of passages from George Fox's Journal and Epistles. A follow up to QuakerPsalms. Have Salt in Yourselves includes many well known sayings of Fox, but is arranged in a way that highlights the message that Fox (and other early Friends) proclaimed. This little book, Have Salt in Yourselves, can and will provide new and veteran Christians with much good counsel, many exhortations, and admonitions, so that they may grow in grace.
Foundation Publications 2010 104 PP. Paper
A Journey Through Three Centuries
BY DAVID AND ANTHEA BOULTON Three adventurous journeys through Quakerism; first, a fresh retelling, with much new material, of George Fox's pivotal 1652 walk from Pendle Hill to Swarthmoor Hall; secondly, the Boultons tell how they followed Fox's route 350 years later; and thirdly, the long journey from the intellectual world of the 1650s to that of the 21st century . After 350 years of scientific, political, religious, philosophical and psychological revolutions, how relevant are the insights of Fox and his revolutionary followers today?
Dales Historical Monographs 1998 234 PP. Paper
$25.00 (in stock)
EDITED BY JOHN NICKALLS NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE IN THIS EDITION Apologies. George Fox's Journal was written later in his life with the benefit of hindsight, at a time when the Religious Society of Friends was struggling for acceptance. It was later edited after his death by Thomas Ellwood, under the direction of the Second-day Morning Meeting, and published in 1694. The Nickalls edition includes passages that were edited out when it was first published. Includes an introduction by Geoffrey Nuttall and an epilogue by Henry J. Cadbury.
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting 1997 789 PP. Paper
Using Words To Get Beyond Words
BY HARBERT RICE Harbert Rice, former Clerk of Reno Meeting and a practitioner of Nonviolent Communication, has facilitated AVP workshops in Nevada prisons. He has also led "Experiment with Light" groups and is familiar with Gendlin's Focusing that Rex Ambler found so influential in forming Light Groups. Here he brings all these practices and insights together to show how each group uses an experiential language process, and that we can gain a further understanding of personal change and transformation by the cross fertilization of these practices that "use words (or their Absence) to get beyond words." Quaker experience, especially related to George Fox, is a major part of the book.
Focusing Institute 2008 118 PP. Paper
MOORE, ROSEMARY This book is a new history of the early Quaker movement. Rooted firmly and deeply in the pamphlet and manuscript sources of the period, this study embodies a masterful exploration of early Quaker life and thought. In its lucidity and depth, Rosemary Moore's book clearly deserves an honored place among the first rank of studies of Quaker origins. No one interested in the topic can afford to pass this fine book by. Let's call it what it is: history at its finest. - H. Larry Ingle
Penn State University Press 2000 328 PP. Paper
$24.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)
An Exploration In Quaker Spirituality
BY REX AMBLER REPRINTING AS OF MAY 2011, WE DONT KNOW WHEN WE CAN GET MORE COPIES -APOLOGIES. Rex Ambler describes a "personal practice of meditation which I discovered in early Friends" and tells "the story of my attempts to use the practice and develop it in my own personal life." Ambler sees Fox, in a tract of 1653, clearly describing a meditative process which Ambler describes in detail, relating it to his own personal exploration and spiritual development. In the appendix the author outlines the stages of meditation, based on the practice of early Friends but given present day relevance. This book is an explication of Ambler's famous 'experiment with Light' process.
Britain Yearly Meeting 2002 60 PP. Paper
$11.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)
The Pastoral Letters Of George Fox
EDITED BY CANBY JONES Fox maintained a prodigious correspondence with groups of Friends-perhaps as many as 3,000 epistles. This collection draws us into the power of the Lord experienced by early Friends immersing us in striking imagery and inspired praise, admonishment, and exhortation.
Friends United Press 1989 515 PP. Cloth
$29.00 (in stock)
Remarkable Psalms Of Faith From George Fox
COMPILED BY T H S WALLACE A selection of the writings of Fox presented in Psalm format.
New Foundation Fellowship 2003 76 PP. Paper
$9.95 (in stock)
BY JOSEPH PICKVANCE Reissued in 2001 by the New Foundation Fellowship. The best introduction to the history, author, faith and relevance of the Journal for the modern reader. By one of the foremost Fox scholars, it is a must for the beginner on Fox and his work. An abbreviated concordance and glossary of 17th century terms help the reader grasp the significance of Fox's experience and the early Christian gospel he brought back to full light.
New Foundation Fellowship 2001 150 PP. Paper
BY LEWIS BENSON Lewis Benson wrote the articles that this pamphlet is based on back in 1974. He talks of the truly Revolutionary Gospel early Friends had discovered, that would enable them, indeed require them, to rebuild Christianity from "New Foundations".
Tract Association 1974 15 PP. Paper
$0.50 (in stock)
BY GEORGE FOX, EDITED BY NORMAN PENNEY Brings together 3 journals of George Fox, edited by Norman Penny to mark the tercentenary of Fox's birth. The Short Journal, dictated by Fox in Lancaster prison (1663-1664), records Fox's travels and the persecutions he faced between 1648 & 1663. The Itinerary Journal, compiled by John Field, contains an account of Fox's mission work, organizational activities and family life from 1681 to his death. The Haistwell Diary, written by Edward Haistwell, records Fox's activities between 1677 and 1679, including his journey across the length of England and his voyages to Holland and Germany. Photographic reprint of the 1925 text.
Cambridge University Press 1925 403 PP. Paper
$34.99 (in stock)
Nine Pastoral Sermons Of George Fox
EDITED BY MAX SKINNER AND GARDINER STILLWELL A volume of heretofore unpublished Fox sermons from later in his ministry (1671-1689), with historical and content introductions by T.H.S. Wallace.
New Foundation Fellowship 2001 246 PP. Paper
$15.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)
The Life And Legacy Of George Fox
BY ARTHUR O ROBERTS Reissued and updated after fifty years this is Arthur Roberts spiritual biography of Fox together with a closer look at Fox's legacy, particularly his thoughts on Christian holiness and what should be the nature of a church. Causing much excitement in the blogosphere this is an inspiring book. The title comes from George Fox's desire for a kingdom of truth and love on this side of "the flaming sword of Eden".
Barclay Press 2008 143 PP. Paper
$16.00 (in stock)
An Anthology Of George Fox
EDITED BY REX AMBLER Rex Ambler's collection of passages from the writings of George Fox is intended to make available his clearest and most profound writings fromt eh whole range of his works, and to display them in such a way as to show the connections between them. It should therefore be possible, reading the text through, to gain a picture of Fox's whole vision. The anthology is presented in parallel with a translation into modern English, a glossary and a concluding essay entitled `Making Sense of Fox.' This edition has some minor revisions. This book is the companion volume to Light to Live By.
Britain Yearly Meeting 2001 202 PP. Paper
Light To Live By Rex Ambler
Friend Jane Yolen
The Journal Of George Fox - Nickalls Edition John Nickalls
Truth Of The Heart Rex Ambler
George Fox's 'book Of Miracles' Henry Cadbury
The Short Journals And Itinerary Journals Of George Fox George Fox, Norman Penney
Have Salt In Yourselves
George Fox - A Christian Mystic Hugh McGregor Ross
Through Flaming Sword Arthur O Roberts
Language Process Notes Harbert Rice