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How the Quakers invented America / David Yount.

Yount, David. (Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780742558335
  • ISBN: 0742558339
  • Physical Description: xxiv, 159 pages ; 23 cm
  • Publisher: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers : [2007]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Distributor from jacket.
With Note:
MARCIVE 12/19/07
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-150) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
A tale of two Quakers -- Preface -- Introduction : "Convincement" -- How the Quakers invented America -- Faith versus feeling -- The meaning of the Light -- The significance of Jesus -- How Quakers approach the Bible -- The good Quaker -- The holy experiment -- Living in the light of eternity -- Why did the Quakers stop quaking? -- A peculiar people -- What Jesus learned in the desert and Thoreau learned in the woods -- To see the world in a grain of sand -- Conclusion : How the Quakers are reinventing America.
Subject: Society of Friends > United States > Influence.
Society of Friends > United States > History.
United States > Church history.

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