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How the Quakers invented America / David Yount.

By: Yount, DavidMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers : [Distributed by National Book Network], c2007. Description: xxiv, 159 p. ; 23 cmISBN: 9780742558335 (alk. paper); 0742558339 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Society of Friends -- United States -- Influence | Society of Friends -- United States -- History | United States -- Church historyDDC classification: 289.6/73 LOC classification: BX7635 | .Y68 2007Online resources: Table of contents only
Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-150) and index.

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.

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