The Christian Quaker: George Keith and the Keithian Controversy

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-39357-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 102 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 181 g

Reihe: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences / Brill Research Perspectives in Quaker Studies

How did the early Quakers understand the relationship between Quakerism and Christianity? Did they think faith in Jesus was necessary? What did they mean by the ‘Light within’? These were the central issues in the Keithian controversy: an explosive schism which broke out among Philadelphian Quakers in the 1690s when George Keith – arguably the most influential Quaker theologian of the seventeenth century – was accused of focusing too heavily on the Incarnate Jesus in his preaching. Keith left the movement under a cloud, and the Keithian controversy has often been explained away in terms of personality and politics. However, this volume presents a theological reading of the dispute. Through a study of Keith’s personal theological development, Madeleine Ward presents his departure from the movement as a significant case-study in the contested relationship between Quakerism and Christianity – and, ultimately, as a battle for the spiritual heart of the Religious Society of Friends.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ward, Madeleine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Geschichte der Theologie, Einzelne Theologen
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Protestantismus, evangelische und protestantische Kirchen Quäker, Religiöse Gesellschaft der Freunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Christian Quaker: George Keith and the Keithian Controversy

Madeleine Ward

Abstract

Keywords

Introduction

1 A Brief Account of the Keithian Controversy

2 The Historiography of George Keith

i Theology and the Study of Early Quakerism
ii Early Confessionalised Histography
iii The Modern Reception History of George Keith
3 A Theological Reading of the Keithian Controversy

i Keith’s Early Life and Quaker Convincement
ii Keith and English Quakerism: an Increasing Christological Concern
iii Keith’s Constructive Theology and the Kabbalah
iv Keith as an Educator in America
v The Keithian Controvery
vi Explaining the Keithian Controversy
vii Keith’s Later Quakerism and Conversion to Anglicanism
Conclusion

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Madeleine Ward, D.Phil. (2017), University of Oxford, was the Henry J. Cadbury Scholar at Pendle Hill during the academic year 2017-18 and now works at Theos think tank. She publishes on seventeenth-century intellectual history, nonconformity, and Quaker theology.