Article Title
Abstract
This study explores seven volumes of tracts collected between 1827 and 1850 by John Brewin, a Cirencester Quaker. This period was a critical one for the Religious Society of Friends, notably in its relationship with Evangelicalism. The collection allows us to test something of the nature and extent of change at grassroots level, by providing an insight into the range of issues that were of interest to provincial English Quakers, the means by which ideas were disseminated, and how they might have been received by readers. The conclusion is that, while Evangelical influence was clearly growing, Quakers remained deeply attached to processes that kept them at odds with much of the Evangelical movement.
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Newman, Edwina
(2005)
"John Brewin's Tracts: The Written Word, Evangelicalism, and the Quaker way in mid Nineteenth Century England,"
Quaker Studies: Vol. 9
:
Iss.
2
, Article 7.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/quakerstudies/vol9/iss2/7