Articles and Publications

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Articles and Publications by Christopher Densmore and Barbara Addison The "Uses of Scripture by Early Friends" is the theme ofthe entire issue of Quaker Religious Thought, 30:3 (No. 97) Sept. 2001. Articles include "George Fox's Use ofthe Bible" by Ronald Worden; "Robert Barclay and the Bible," by Dean Freiday; "George Keith: Biblical Apologist for the Religious Society ofFriends," by Juliet H. Dodds; "Samuel Fisher: Seventeenth -Century Quaker Biblical Scholar," by Timothy W. Seid; "Elizabeth Bathhurst and Truth's Vindication," by Mary Garman; "Reading Scripture with Dorothy White," by Michael Birkel; and Hugh S. Pyper, "Response: Can There Be a Quaker Hermeneutic?" The journal Quaker Studies 6:2 (March 2002) includes Julie Sutherland, "Obedience to the Inward Oracle: An Analysis of Some Early Quaker Women's Publications," 135-158; Paul A. Lacy, "Like a Dog Walking on Its Hind Legs: Samuel Johnson and the Quakers," 159-174, details Johnson's reaction to Mary Knowles (17331807 ) and other Quaker women; Thomas D. Hamm, "? Protest Against Protestantism': Hicksite Friends and the Bible in the Nineteenth Century," 175-194, concerns the various and changing attitudes ofHicksites toward the Bible from the 1 820s to the 1 890s; and John Oliver, "Walter and Emma Malone: Friends of Sinners and the Poor," 195-210, examines the commitment to social reform by two prominent Holiness Friends in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Sources for the early history and foundational beliefs of the Society of Friends include Robert Barclay, Apologyfor the True Christian Divinity (Glenside, PA: Quaker Heritage Press, 2002), based on the first English language text of 1678, though modernizing "spelling, capitalization, italicization , punctuation, and names ofauthors cited." The book also includes a critique of Dean Freiday's Barclay's Apology in Modern English by Larry Kuenning. Robert Barclay's Catechism and Confession of Faith (Newburg, Oregon: Barclay Press, 2001) has been reissued in a text edited by Dean Freiday and Arthur Roberts, with a foreword by Paul Anderson. The intent of the editors is to make an accessible text in modern English with changes in phrasing, use ofthe NSRV edition of the Bible, and other notes. Rex Ambler, Truth of the Heart: An Anthology of George Fox, 1624-1691 (London: Quaker Books, 2001), is a selection of relatively short passages from Fox's writings, both in original form and in modern English, arranged topically, with a glossary of terms and an essay on "Making Sense ofFox," the whole intended to present Fox's ideas. Judith Hayden, In Search ofMargaret Fell (London: Quaker Books, 2002) is a popular account of Fell (1614-1702) with reflections by the author on Fell's message for today. Articles and Publications55 Friends for 350 Years (Wallingford, PA: Pendle Hill, 2002), is an update of Howard H. Brinton's Friends for 300 Years, originally published in 1952, with an historical update and notes by Margaret Hope Bacon. Brinton's text has been left unchanged, but some ofhis interpretations are updated or challenged in notes at the end ofthe volume. The experience of Quakers in the government of colonial Philadelphia is covered in Nicole Eustace, "Vehement Movements: Debates on Emotion , Self, and Society during the Seven Years War in Pennsylvania," in Explorations in Early American Culture 5 (2001), 79-117, and Alison Gilbert Olson, "Pennsylvania Satire Before the Stamp Act," in Pennsylvania History 68:4 (2001), 507-532. Arthur O. Roberts has used the letters of Jack Willcuts (1922-1989), pastor and later superintendent in Northwest Yearly Meeting, a missionary to Bolivia (1947-1951) and Peru (1954-1958), as the basis for The Wit & Wisdom ofJack Willcuts (Newburg, Oregon: Barclay Press, 2000). Full of Adventure: the Memoirs of Grace Scattergood Lowry (S.n., s.l., 2001) is a reissue of a book first privately printed in 1973. Lowry (1891-1964), was active in numerous Friends concerns in the United States and Europe, including several years at the International Student House in Washington, DC, 1936-1943, andwith Washington (DC) Friends Meeting. RufusJones: Essential Writings, selected with an introduction by Kerry Waters (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2001), is part of the "Modern Spiritual Masters" series. Quaker Mysticism: Its Context and Implications, by Mulford Q. Sibley (Landenberg, PA: Quaker Universalist Fellowship, 2000...