I am a South Jersey Friend and dad with a love out of outreach and a passion for looking afresh at Friends' testimonies, language and practices. I am the publisher of Quaker Quaker, a community site for Friends, and write about online publicity, organizing and design on my business site at MartinKelley.com.
Quakers & Anabaptists
Tough question in the bookstore today: a customer called asking for books about the connection between Friends and Anabaptists. Remarkably, we couldn’t come up with much of a list. But let’s be interactive here, readers! What books did I forget about? And what’s this phenomena of denying Quaker/Anabaptist common roots and cross-pollination?
Peter Brock talks about it in “The Quaker Peace Testimony 1660 to 1914”:http://www.Quakerbooks.org/get/1-85072-065-7 and Doug Gwyn has some stuff in “Seekers Found”:http://www.Quakerbooks.org/get/0-87574-960-7 but there should be more than that. We tried going from the other end and surfed over to “Anabaptist Books”:http://www.anabaptistbooks.com/ and typed in “Quaker” but not much there.
After telling our customer that we couldn’t come up with too much on Quaker/Anabaptist cross-pollinization, he said that’s what he had been discovering. He asked me why I thought that was. Good question. I told him that Quakers had spent much of the twenthieth century distancing themselves from Anabaptists, and on giving up on our shared ‘peculiar’ testimonies on plainness and separation from the world. This really coincides with the rise of the Quakers-as-Protestant theme and with the renaming of the testimonies in modern secular language.
January 14, 2004 7:56 PM.
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