Articles and Publications

Articles and Publications by Mary Ellen Chijioke and Claire B. Shetter Recent publication in Quaker history reflects the eclectic nature ofthe field, ranging from sectarian narrative to the social testimonies to general social and cultural history. The seventeenth century is represented by three very different works. Maryann S. Feola has revised her 1990 dissertation for a biography of George Bishop: Seventeenth-Century Soldier Turned Quaker (York: William Sessions, 1996). Kenneth L. Carroll's article, "Maryland Quakers in England, 1659-1720" {Maryland Historical Magazine 91.4 (1996): 451466 ) covers all those Marylanders so far identified who made the transatlantic trip fromwest to east, whether or not they returned. In his article "The Quaker Vision and the Doing of Theology" {Quaker Religious Thought 28.2 (Cumulative no. 88): 21-37), R. Melvin Keiser argues that early Quaker expression was resoundingly theological but, unlike standard Protestant thought, did not proceed as an abstract, logical development of an external fixed point. Words were not to confine thought but to express the deeper experience of divinity. Shirley Dodson has edited a study guide based on the Autumn, 1994, Pendle Hill Monday evening lecture series, John Woolman 's Spirituality and Our Contemporary Witness{[Yhi\adelphia\: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Religious Education Committee and Pendle Hill, 1995). Following an introduction by Sterling Olmsted and Michael Heller are papers by Anne Dalke and Susan Dean, John Lampen, Mary Rose O'Reilley, Tom Head, Elizabeth Watson, Philip Boroughs, and Daniel A. Seeger. The editor has provided suggested preparatory reading and discussion questions for each paper. The religious experience ofQuaker women continues to attract feminist scholars. Maria J. Selvidge has compiled a survey of Notorious Voices: FeministBiblicalInterpretation, 1500-1920(NewYork: Continuum, 1996). The first chapter on egalitarian readings of the Bible is dominated by Quakers: just two non-Quaker holiness womenjoin George Fox, Margaret Askew Fell Fox, Sarah Moore Grimké and Lucretia Mott. Margaret Olofson Thickstun includes an interesting discussion ofthe use ofscripture by early Friends in her article, "Writing the Spirit: Margaret Fell's Feminist Critique ofPauline Theology" {JournaloftheAmericanAcademyofReligion v. 63 (Summer 1995): 269-279). In Peculiar Power: A Quaker Woman Preacher in Eighteenth-CenturyAmerica (Washington: Smithsonian Insti- ARTICLES AND PUBLICATIONS61 tution Press, 1996), Cristine Levenduski recounts the life and times of Elizabeth Ashbridge. Three works treat Quaker relations with other faiths and cultures. In his article, "Christian Dialogue in the Seventeenth Century" {Quaker Religious Thought 28.2 (Cumulative no. 88): 39-55), Dean Freiday includes a chronology of all documented contacts between Quakers and other faiths from 1642-1698. Stefano Villani has published Tremolanti e Papisti, Missioni quacchere iteli 'Italia del Seicento (Roma: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 1996), recounting the story of Katharine Evans and Sarah Cheevers. Pilgrims in Hindu Holy Land: Sacred Shrines of the Indian Himalayas (York: Sessions Book Trust, 1997) is an edited version of Quaker missionary Geoffrey Waring Maw's journals of the five times between 1923 and 1 928 that hejoined the pilgrimage to Uttarkhand to seek deeper understanding of the people he was addressing. The Issues Program of Pendle Hill (Wallingford, PA) has published the papers of three of its conferences, all edited by Chuck Fager and all with historical components. The Quaker Issues Roundtable: The Bible, the Church, & the Future ofFriends (1996) includes Elizabeth Cazden's paper on "Fellowships, Conferences and Associations: The Limits ofthe Liberal Quaker Reinvention ofMeeting Polity" (pp. 6-40). The first QuakerPeace Roundtable: A Continuing Journey (1995) included two historical background papers for a discussion of the modern peace testimony: "The Politics ofDespair and the Peace Testimony," by H. Larry Ingle (pp. 143154 ) and "The Christian Religion and War," by J. William Frost (pp. 155189 ). Two twentieth-century efforts at peacemaking are described in Sustaining Peace Witness in the Twenty-First Century: Papers from the 1997 Quaker Peace Roundtable (1997): "Quaker Peace Witness in the Twentieth Century: A Preliminary Overview," by Maya Wilson (pp. 1992 ), and "An Honest Quaker Broker," by South African Hendrik W. Van der Merwe (pp. 241-256). Two other publications deal with Quaker testimonies. Marianne Arbogast's article, "Plain Speech and Resistance," The Witness 79.4 (1996): 8-9, relates the historical development ofplain speech and modern Quaker nonviolence to the testimony on truth...