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(More customer reviews)As you've noticed, the above book description begins as follows: "This book is an attempt to study historically and critically ...."
You'll find the same words in the opening sentence of the book's Preface. This is traditional Quaker humility.
Actually, this book is a gracefully written and enjoyable account of the Quakers far-reaching influence on the religious and public life of the colonial era with some soul searching into the decline of their influence after the Revolution. This was partly caused by the Quaker moral objection to war.
But, Jones sees another significant cause. He believes the Quakers were too slow to establish the educational institutions that would better elaborate their vision for future generations and help spread its message to others. Maybe their natural skepticism of institutional structure went a little too far.
300 years ago, Quaker theology offered American colonials its faith in an inward religion accessible to everyone, and the cultivation of an outward life consistent with understandable religious principles. It's a liberating idea, then and now.
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