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John Woolman and the Government of Christ

By Jon Kershner

John Woolman and the Government of Christ

By Jon Kershner

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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.
Product details
Number of Pages:
282
Release Date:
2018-04-02
Publication Date:
2014-11-03
Publisher:
ACADEMIC
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0190868074
ISBN13:
9780190868079
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
590 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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