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Quakers, Christ, and the Enlightenment. By Madeleine Pennington. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. xxx + 242 pp. $100.00 cloth; e-book available

Church History, 2021, Vol.90 (4), p.961-962 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of American Society of Church History ;ISSN: 0009-6407 ;EISSN: 1755-2613 ;DOI: 10.1017/S0009640722000403

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  • Title:
    Quakers, Christ, and the Enlightenment. By Madeleine Pennington. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. xxx + 242 pp. $100.00 cloth; e-book available
  • Author: Angell, Stephen W.
  • Subjects: 17th century ; Book Reviews and Notes ; Christology ; E-books ; Naming ; Quakers ; Religious history ; Reputations ; Theologians ; Theology
  • Is Part Of: Church History, 2021, Vol.90 (4), p.961-962
  • Description: The standards of Chalcedonian orthodoxy are challenging for theologians of any denomination to meet, but the emphasis among Quakers on the Light of Christ being found in every person makes for a special challenge for Quaker writers to reconcile Christ's Light with the living witness of a specific man who lived more than one thousand six hundred years previous. Pennington finds it notable that “such an important contribution toward the Quakers’ understanding of Christ's body was produced out of conversations regarding the most pressing philosophical issues of the day” (158). Pennington asserts that what emerges is “a messy picture of Quaker intellectual history” (180), with Quaker theology on the way to becoming “an orthodoxy in its own right” (181), as demonstrated by the extraordinarily copious literature generated by a bitter controversy in the 1690s between George Keith, a formerly influential Quaker theologian who left the Quakers to become an Anglican priest, and Whitehead, Penn, and the main body of Quakers.
  • Publisher: New York, USA: Cambridge University Press
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0009-6407
    EISSN: 1755-2613
    DOI: 10.1017/S0009640722000403
  • Source: AUTh Library subscriptions: ProQuest Central
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