The Journal of John Woolman and A Plea for the Poor - Couverture souple

Woolman, John

 
9781579101466: The Journal of John Woolman and A Plea for the Poor
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ISBN 10 : 1579101461 ISBN 13 : 9781579101466
Editeur : Wipf and Stock, 1998

Synopsis

Woolman's “Journal” was first published in 1774 (shortly after his death). His life, as recorded by himself, was the finest flower of a unique Quaker culture, whose focus, as Howard H. Brinton has put is, was not on the literary or plastic arts but on “life itself in home, meeting and community,” a life which was an “artistic creation as beautiful in its simplicity and proportion as was the architecture of its meeting houses...” Its distinguishing marks were not dogmas but practical testimonies for equality, simplicity and peace. These testimonies, once revolutionary in their social implications, were already becoming institutionalized in Woolman's time as the badges of a “peculiar” people.” In his quiet way (he must have been the quietest radical in history) John Woolman reforged the testimonies, tempered them in the stream of love and converted them once again into instruments of social revolution.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Woolman's "Journal" was first published in 1774 (shortly after his death). His life, as recorded by himself, was the finest flower of a unique Quaker culture, whose focus, as Howard H. Brinton has put is, was not on the literary or plastic arts but on "life itself in home, meeting and community," a life which was an "artistic creation as beautiful in its simplicity and proportion as was the architecture of its meeting houses..." Its distinguishing marks were not dogmas but practical testimonies for equality, simplicity and peace. These testimonies, once revolutionary in their social implications, were already becoming institutionalized in Woolman's time as the badges of a "peculiar" people." In his quiet way (he must have been the quietest radical in history) John Woolman reforged the testimonies, tempered them in the stream of love and converted them once again into instruments of social revolution.

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Éditeur
Wipf and Stock
Date d'édition
1998
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1579101461
ISBN 13 
9781579101466
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
254
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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