Articles and Publications

Articles and Publications by Mary Ellen Chijioke and Claire B. Shetter The tercentenary of the death of George Fox has produced a new spate of materials relating to Fox and the Quakerism of his times. Most noteworthy is a reprinting of the 1831 Marcus Gould/Isaac T. Hopper edition of his Works (State College, PA.: George Fox Fund, 1990; 8 vols.), with a new general introduction by Douglas Gwyn and an introduction to the Journal by John H. Curtis. Cost: $160 plus $7.50 for shipping to Douglas Garrett, 324 S. Atherton St., State College , PA 16801 . A descendant of Margaret Fell, Hugh McGregor Ross has selected a number of passages, some never previously published, to compile George Fox Speaksfor Himself: Texts that Reveal His Personality (York: William Sessions, 1991). Two articles interpreting for a larger audience the significance of Fox's contributions are Michael A. Mullett's "George Fox and the Origins of Quakerism" (History Today 41 (1991): 26-31); and John Punshon's "George Fox's Journal" (Expository Theology 102 (1990): 35-39). During his research for his biography of Fox (to be published by Oxford University Press), H. Larry Ingle has found among the documents concerning a land dispute between George Fell and his mother, Margaret, a decree for "The Excommunication of George Fox, 1678" (The Journal of the Friends' Historical Society 56.2 (1991): 71-77). Moving to Fox's companions, Edwin B. Bronner discusses "George Fox and William Penn, Unlikely Yokefellows and Friends" (The Journal ofthe Friends' Historical Society 56.2 (1991): 78-95). Hugh Barbour has edited a new selection of Penn's writings, William Penn on Religion andEthics: TheEmergence ofLiberal Quakerism (Lewiston, NY: E. Mellen Press, 1991; 2 vols.). In her Ph.D. dissertation for the City University of New York, "An Experience of Defeat: George Bishop, from Soldier to Quaker during the English Civil War and Interregnum" (1990), Maryann Feola Castelucci uses Bishop as an example of the disillusioned Puritan radical who turned to sectarian religion, in this case Quaker. Christine Trevett takes another look at one of the most controversial situations in early Quakerism in her article on "The Women around James Nayler: A Matter of Emphasis " (Religion 20 (1990): 249-273). Two recent dissertations treat Quakerism as part of the general religious environment of Restoration England. In "Anti-Monarchist Movements in England and Scotland: 1660-1700" (Northern Illinois University, 1990), Judy Lynn Cox treats Quakers among several radical political, religious and social movements keeping alive the idea of the " Good Old Cause." According to Richard Wayne Daniels (" 'Great is the Mystery of Godliness': The Christology of John Owen" (Ph.D. dissertation, Westminster Theological Seminary, 1990), Owen blamed Quaker mysticism along with English and church rationalism and a morality based on natural revelation—strange bedfellows!—for a loss of esteem for Jesus Christ, declining belief in His Divine-human Person, and failure in practical understanding of His work. Among regional studies of English Quakerism, David Alexander Scott finds in his dissertation for the University of York, "Politics, Dissent and Quakerism in York, 1640-1700" (D.Phil., 1990), that the first Quakers ofthat city were much more at home in their civic community than has generally been thought. Not being a major center for Quakerism, the south midlands have not received much attention in general studies; Jack V. Wood sets out to rectify this neglect in his narrative of the meetings now combined into the Banbury and Evesham Monthly Articles and Publications57 Meeting, Some Rural Quakers: A History ofQuakers and Quakerism at the Corners of the Four Shires of Oxford, Warwick, Worcester and Gloucester (York: William Sessions, 1991). Adding to the growing body of literature on nineteenth-century English Quakerism is Thomas C. Kennedy's article, "Heresy-Hunting among Victorian Quakers: The Manchester Difficulty, 1861-73" (Victorian Studies 34.2 (1991): 227-253), a study of the Conservative and Gurneyite reactions to the liberal ideas emanating from Mount Street Meeting's Friends Institute and their campaign against David Duncan. Hope Hewison traces the development of a leading Quaker liberal in " 'Human Progress and the Inward Light': The Position of Thomas Hodgkin (1831-1913) in Relation to His Contemporaries" (The Journal ofthe Friends...