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In his presentation on the Baptist sects, Weber explores the similarities between Calvinist doctrine and Quakerism.
He begins his account by detailing the apparent triumph of the evangelicals within Quakerism during the early to mid-nineteenth century.
If there are any negative aspects of Quakerism it's that we have a tendency to hide our light under a bushel.
The Puritan clergy, in England and New England, greeted the rise of Quakerism with the fury that an old left often reserves for a new.
The achievement of religious toleration in the 1690s coincided with a quietist phase in Quakerism that lasted until the 19th century.
Its founding links to Quakerism weakened and although they were never lost, a more secular atmosphere prevailed.
Today there are four strands of Quakerism, which are evangelical, pastored, conservative, and liberal unprogrammed who worship in silent waiting.
In 1897, with the English Quaker John Wilhelm Rowntree, Jones made ambitious plans for a history of mysticism and Quakerism.
Quakerism looks on life as a whole: it cannot see religion as belonging to one department and reform to another.
Michael Haykin has researched the serious damage caused by Quakerism.
In 1661, King Charles II forbade Massachusetts from executing anyone for professing Quakerism.
In 1682, William Penn received a royal grant of a colony now known as Pennsylvania, and founded its capital, Philadelphia, which remains a centre of American liberal Quakerism.
In 2002, in the 350th anniversary year of the beginning of Quakerism, the Bank of England in Britain has singled out the work of Elizabeth Fry in prison reform by putting a picture of her on the new five-pound note.
In the early years of Quakerism, George Fox faced resistance in developing and establishing women's meetings.
Richard Nixon was the second of five children born to Frank Nixon, a service station owner and grocer, and Hannah Milhous Nixon, whose devout Quakerism would exert a strong influence on her son.
After the war Gerald Hibbert moved on to become headmaster of the Quak ers' School at Ackworth near Pontefract in West Yorkshire, founded in 1779, and took up a more prominent role in Quakerism nationally.
Quakerism started in England and Wales, and quickly spread to Ireland, the Netherlands, Barbados and North America.
Quakerism took root in the Netherlands in the 17th century but died out in the mid-19th, as did groups in Congéniès, France, and Bad Pyrmont, Germany.
From the beginning, Quaker women, most notably Margaret Fell, played an important role in defining Quakerism.
Although Gurneyism was the main form of Quakerism in Great Britain in the 19th century, Gurneyite Friends are today located in America, Ireland, Africa and India.
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Compact and quiet as it may appear, Quakerism has had its schisms and internal feuds.
And when they quarrel, what a Babel of words, and what a Quakerism of hands!
He would, Lady Penn maintained, recover from his distemper of Quakerism.
The independent volition of Quakerism is one of their prime peculiarities.
By this time, however, he was by no means the sole preacher of Quakerism.
One can see, too, that modern Quakerism has taken a gentler tone.
Quakerism also establishes Woman on a sufficient equality with Man.
The meekness of Quakerism will do in religion but not in politics.
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