Walking in the Way of Peace
Subtitle: Quaker Pacifism in the Seventeenth Century
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: March 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780195131383
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; Peace studies; Quakers (Religious Society of Friends); c 1500 to c 1600; c 1600 to c 1700; Society Of Friends (Quakers); U.S. History - Colonial Period (1607-1775); History; Religion - Church History; Religion; Northeastern & North Atlantic states; Christianity - History - General; Christianity - Quaker; United States - Colonial Period; Church history; History-United States - Colonial Period; Religion / Church History; Religion / Quakers; Religion-Christianity - Quakers; Christianity - Protestant; 17th century; England; King Philip's War, 1675-1676; New England; Quakers; Religious aspects; Society of Friends
First sentence: War is rudely obtrusive in history.
Description: "In examining the Quaker expression of pacifism, Weddle focuses on King Philip's War of 1675-76, a deadly war between Indians and English settlers in New England. This first in-depth study of early Quaker pacifism in America uses the war experience both to set forth and to disentangle the intricate complications of pacifist belief."

"In an unusual synthesis of intellectual and social history, Weddle uses primary sources rich in human detail combined with a broad interpretive perspective to establish a new understanding of the pacifist continuum: the range of behavior that flows from changing rationales underlying principles of peace; and the density of interaction between time, place, and principle so essential to understanding the possibilities of pacifism."--Jacket.