Henry Cadbury : Quaker, Pacifist, and Skeptic (Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences / Brill Research Perspectives in Quaker Studies)

Krippner, James/ Watt, David Harrington

Brill（2024/01発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 88 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004693944

Full Description

This book introduces readers to the life, thought, social activism and political conflicts of the Quaker intellectual and peace activist Henry Cadbury (1883-1974). Born into an established Orthodox Philadelphia Quaker family, Cadbury was among the most prominent Quaker intellectuals of his day. During his lifetime, he was well known as a contributor to one of the most important English translations of the Bible (the Revised Standard Version) and wrote scores of articles and books on the early history of Christianity and the history of the Society of Friends. He also had enormous influence over what may be the single best institutional instantiation of the Quaker commitment to nonviolence—the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), an organization Cadbury helped to found in 1917 and served throughout his long lifetime. When the AFSC was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1947, Cadbury was asked to accept the prize on its behalf.

Contents

Contents

 Acknowledgments

 Abstract

 Keywords

 1 Introduction

 2 Henry Cadbury and His World until World War I

 3 Faith, Politics, and Controversy in the Shadow of World War I

 4 Cadbury and the Nazis

 5 Conclusion

 6 Chronology

 References