Articles and Publications

Abstract

Many of the current books and articles examine the first period of Quakerism. Stephen W. Angell, “An Early Version of George Fox’s ‘Letter to the Governor of Barbados’,” Quaker Studies 19, no. 2 (March 2015): 277-294, compares the earliest publication of this influential Quaker statement in 1672 to the version published in the 1694 edition of Fox’s journal. Angell’s other contributions include Stephen W. Angell, “Richard Farnworth, Samuel Fisher, and the Authority of Scripture among Early Quakers,” Quaker Studies 19, no. 2 (March 2015): 207-228, and Stephen W. Angell and Pink Dandelion, eds., Early Quakers and Their Theological Thought (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015). Rex Ambler considers “Light” as used by both early and contemporary Quakers in The Light Within: Then and Now, Pendle Hill pamphlet 425 (Wallingford, PA: Pendle Hill Publications, 2013). Others examining the early period include Michael Birkel, “Robert Barclay and Kabbalah,” Quaker Studies 21, no. 1 (September 2016): 3-13; Marjon Ames, Margaret Fell, Letters, and the Making of Quakerism (New York: Routledge, 2017); Madeleine Ward, “Transformative Faith and the Theological Response of the Quakers to the Boston Executions,” Quaker Studies 21, no. 1 (September 2016): 15-32; Bernard Capp, “The Religious Marketplace: Public Disputations in Civil War and Interregnum England,” English Historical Review 129, no. 536 (February 2014): 47-78; and Jonathan Warren, “‘Out of Whose Hive the Quakers Swarm’d’: Polemics and the Justification of Infant Baptism in the Early Restoration,” Perichoresis 13, no. 1 (June 2015): 97113. Judith Roads, “Incantational and Catechetical Style in Early Quaker Prose Writings,” Quaker Studies 19, no. 1 (September 2014): 172-181, concludes that Quakers used both styles in the 17th century, though the incantational style was less used at the end of the century. Kate Peters, “The Quakers and the Politics of the Army in the Crisis of 1659,” Past & Present 231, no. 1 (May 2016): 97-128, includes an analysis of Quaker merchant George Bishop. Nicholas Seager, “John Bunyan and Socinianism,” Journal of Ecclesiastical History 65, no. 3 (July 2014): 580-600, draws on Bunyan’s disputes with Quakers.