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QUAKER RESEARCH IN PROGRESS By John and Barbara Curtis Donald B. Kelly of Villanova University has been working in the Quaker Collection at Haverford College on a biographical study of Anthony Benezet. * * * Ann Purvis has begun work on a thesis for the Ph.D. degree from Fordham University on Rufus Jones and mysticism; hagiography, structure of religious experience, attributes of God and religious leadership and values. * * * Dorian Bales is preparing a thesis on the theology of Robert Barclay for the doctorate from the University of Chicago. * * * Kenneth Henke of Princeton Theological Seminary is preparing the groundwork for a thesis on the Quaker understanding of the role of spiritual guidance in the Christian ethical life. * * * Alan Anderson, senior lecturer at Sunderland Polytechnic in Sunderland, England, is examining Quakerism in the diocese of Durham (i.e. the counties of Northumberland and Durham in Northeast England) between 16501720 and its relation to the dominant religious group in the area, the Church of England. He is particularly concerned with the fate of Quakers persecuted in this area in this period who emigrated to the American colonies. * * * Thomas C. Kennedy, professor of history at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, reports that his book, "The hound of conscience: a history of the No-Conscription Fellowship," will be appearing from the University Press of Kentucky in the fall of 1980. It contains a good deal of material about Quakers. * * * Anne M. Gordon, Librarian of the Long Island Historical Society, has completed the work of transcription of a manuscript journal of Roger Gill, 1628-1699, who accompanied Quaker Thomas Story on his religious visit to the American colonies in the late 17th century. * * * Richard I. Ortega, a Swarthmore graduate and a student of architecture, is working on a project involving the college architecture of Addison Hutton, with particular emphasis on the design of Parrish Hall, the original building of Swarthmore College. 66 ...

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