Early Quakers and Their Theological Thought

Stephen W. Angell is Geraldine Leatherock Professor of Quaker Studies at the Earlham School of Religion. He recently co-edited The Oxford Handbook of Quaker Studies (with Pink Dandelion) and Black Fire: African American Quakers on Spirituality and Human Rights (with Harold D. Weaver, Jr and Paul Kriese). Pink Dandelion is Professor of Quaker Studies at the University of Birmingham and Honorary Research Fellow at Lancaster University. He also directs the Woodbrooke Centre for Postgraduate Quaker Studies. He has written and edited numerous publications on Quakerism, including The Oxford Handbook of Quaker Studies (with Stephen W. Angell) and An Introduction to Quakerism.

• Introduction Pink Dandelion and Stephen W. Angell; 1. Seventeenth-century context and Quaker beginnings Douglas Gwyn; 2. Quakers and the printing press Betty Hagglund; 3. Unity and universality in the theology of George Fox Hilary Hinds; 4. The man who 'set himself as a sign': James Nayler's incarnational theology Carole Dale Spencer; 5. The witness of Richard Farnworth: prophet of light, apostle of church order Michael Birkel and Stephen W. Angell; 6. Margaret Fell and the Second Coming of Christ Sally Bruyneel; 7. 'Outcasts of Israel': the apocalyptic theology of Edward Burrough and Francis Howgill Pink Dandelion and Frederick Martin; 8. Renegade Oxonian: Samuel Fisher's importance in formulating a Quaker understanding of Scripture Stephen W. Angell; 9. 'That you may be perfect in love': the prophecy of Dorothy White Michele Lise Tarter; 10. The conventionality of the notorious John Perrot Carla Gardina Pestana; 11. Felt reality in practical living and innovative thinking: Mary and Isaac Penington's journey from Puritan anguish to Quaker truth R. Melvin Keiser; 12. Robert Barclay: the art of apologetics Hugh S. Pyper; 13. Elizabeth Bathurst: 'Tis not Inky Character can make a Saint' Mary Van Vleck Garman; 14. William Penn's contributions to early Quaker thought Melvin B. Endy; 15. Immediate revelation, Kabbalah, and magic: the primacy of experience in the theology of George Keith Michael Birkel; 16. From apocalyptic prophecy to tolerable faithfulness: George Whitehead and a theology for the eschaton deferred Robynne Rogers Healey; Afterword Rosemary Moore and Richard C. Allen.