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John Woolman and the Government of Christ: A Colonial Quaker's Vision for the British Atlantic World

by Jon R. Kershner

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • 15.8 x 23.7 x 2.8 cm

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In 1758, a Quaker tailor and sometime shopkeeper and school teacher stood up in a Quaker meeting and declared that the time had come for Friends to reject the practice of slavery. That man was John Woolman, and that moment was a significant step, among many, toward the abolition of slavery in the United States. Woolman's antislavery position was only one essential piece of his comprehensive theological vision for colonial American society. Drawing on Woolman's entire body of writing, Jon R. Kershner reveals that the theological and spiritual underpinnings of Woolman's alternative vision for the British Atlantic world were nothing less than a direct, spiritual christocracy on earth, what Woolman referred to as "the Government of Christ." Kershner argues that Woolman's theology is best understood as apocalyptic-centered on a supernatural revelation of Christ's immediate presence governing all aspects of human affairs, and envisaging the impending victory of God's reign over apostasy. John Woolman and the Government of Christ explores the theological reasoning behind Woolman's critique of the burgeoning trans-Atlantic economy, slavery, and British imperial conflicts, and fundamentally reinterprets 18th-century Quakerism by demonstrating the continuing influence of early Quaker apocalypticism.
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  • Title

    John Woolman and the Government of Christ: A Colonial Quaker's Vision for the British Atlantic World

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press, USA

  • Published

    April 2018

  • Weight

    500g

  • Dimensions

    15.8 x 23.7 x 2.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9780190868079

  • ISBN-10

    0190868074

  • Eden Code

    4684154

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