Articles and Publications

Articles and Publications Mary Ellen Chijioke and Ciaire B. Shetter Perhaps because of the miracles of electronic bibliographic searching, the volume of material deserving mention in this column has been increasing steadily in recent years. Our problem has changed from finding the material to figuring out how to describe it in the space available. Friends are always looking for good general works on Quakerism. One that has gotten onto standard booklists without previous mention in Quaker History is Wilmer A. Cooper's book, A Living Faith: A Historical Study of Quaker Beliefs (Richmond, IN: Friends United Press, 1990). Meetings looking for simple outreach literature for attendere may want to look at Harvey Gillman's pamphlet, A Portrait ofFriends: An Introduction to the Quakers (London: Quaker Home Service, 1 993). If we begin at the beginning of the Quaker story, two recent items supply important background for the study ofthe first period ofQuakerism. Those who cite later Quaker publications for early Quaker history should first read Rosemary Moore's article, "Evaluating the Evidence: The Reliability of Sources of Information for Quakerism before 1660" (The Friends' Quarterly 27.8 (1993): 364-372). Elizabeth P. Skerpan's book, 77ie Rhetoric ofPolitics in the English Revolution, 1642-1660 (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1992) analyzes the petitions, published speeches and pamphlets that defined the discourse of the English Revolution in which Quakers participated so enthusiastically. George Fox, 1624-1691: Our Living Contemporary, edited by Olive Fyfe Munro (London: Farrand Press, 1 992) includes five lectures analyzing the relevance ofFox's message for the present, sponsored by London and Middlesex General Meeting in 1991. Covering well beyond the first period, Gary Michael Knarr's M.A. thesis for the University ofWaterloo analyzes "The Journey ofGeorge Whitehead: Transition and Continuity in the First Seventy Years of English Quakerism" (1992). In his article on "Theological Sources of William Penn's Concept of Religious Toleration" (Journal ofChurch andState 35.1 (1993): 83-111 ), Kenneth R. Morris develops the thesis that Penn was shaped decisively in this area during his time of study under Moses Amyraut at the Huguenot Academy in Saumur, France, 1662-64. Four articles in Quaker Religious Thought (26.2 (1993)) examine the evercontroversial question of the relationship between seventeenth- and twentiethcentury Quaker faith. In her article, "Christ Jesus the Covenant ofGod: Two Views of the Quaker Doctrine of the Light" (pp. 7-15), Lucy Davenport contrasts the Christology ofFox and Barclay. T. Vail Palmer, Jr. questions the representativeness of Barclay's Third Proposition, generally taken as authoritative, in "Early Friends and the Bible: Some Observations" (pp. 41-55). Michael P. Graves tackles another classic Quaker question in his discussion of Barclay's doctrinal writing, "Robert Barclay and the Rhetoric of the Inward Light" (pp. 17-32). Charlotte CondiaWilliams uses "The Names of God in George Fox and John Woolman" (pp. 33-40) to study their conceptions of God. There is an unusual number ofworks on Irish Quakerism, including three articles in The Journal ofthe Friends Historical Society (JFHS), 56.4 (1993). An overview is given by Maurice Wigham in The Irish Quakers: A Short History ofthe Religious Society ofFriends in Ireland(Dublin: Historical Committee ofthe Religious Society ofFriends in Ireland, 1 992). Mollie Grubb's article on "Abraham Shackleton and the Articles and Publications61 Irish Separation of 1 797- 1 803" (JFHS: 262-27 1 ) will prove especially interesting to American readers for the distinctions she draws between the issues leading to the Irish New Light movement and the Hicksite separation of 1827-28 on the other side of the Atlantic. Richard S. Harrison has provided a general history of Cork City Quakers, 1655-1939(Bmtry, Co. Cork: R.S. Harrison, 1991), coveringlocal Quaker history up to the opening ofthe meeting house at Summerhill South in 1 939. He gives detailed coverage of the use of a Quaker literary and scholarly society to interest young Friends within their own class in his article, "Cork Mutual Improvement Association (1859-84) and Its Antecedents" (JFHS: 272-286). Finally, addressing an issue ofconcern not only with regard to Ireland, David E. W. Holden analyzes the declining membership of Ireland Yearly Meeting in his article, "Will the Inward...