The Emergence of Quaker Writing: Dissenting Literature in Seventeenth-Century EnglandT. Corns, D. Loewenstein Among the radical sects which flourished during the tumultuous years of the English Revolution, the early Quakers were particularly aware of the power of the written word to promote their prophetic visions?and unorthodox beliefs. |
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George Fox and the Apocalyptic | 25 |
Enthusiasm | 57 |
The Singular Experiences | 70 |
Early | 88 |
Joseph Besse and the Quaker Culture of Suffering John R Knott | 126 |
A Historians Afterword Ann Hughes | 142 |
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