Genius of the Transcendent Mystical Writings of Jakob Boehme translated by Michael Birkel and Jeff Bach
Quaker scholar Michael Birkel turns his attention to Jakob Boehme (1575–1624), a mystic who pushed language to its limits to describe an experience that happens above and beyond rational thought. George Fox read Boehme and his influence is to be seen in many of the early Quaker writings, and indeed among modern Friends, the German Romantics, Pietism, various American utopian experi- ments, and in the later European mystics. The great scholar of mysticism Evelyn Underhill called Beohme “one of the most astonishing cases in history of a natural genius for the transcen- dent.” This is a translation to modern English with an excellent introduction from the translators.
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Engaging Scripture Reading the Bible with Early Friends by Michael Birkel, foreword by Basil Pennington
Through a close study of early Quaker writings, Michael Birkel demonstrates the meditative way early Friends read the Bible. He encourages contemporary readers to enter scripture through this contemplative Quaker approach, which—like the ancient practice of lectio divina—challenges the reader to be not only informed, but transformed.
Friends United Press, 2005, 152 pp., paperback $12.00
The Riddles of the Fourth Gospel An Introduction to John by Paul N. Anderson
Paul Anderson, a leading Quaker bible scholar, looks at the literary, historical, and theological aspects of the Gospel of John, evaluating approaches others have used and addressing questions of the Gospel’s authorship and composition in relation to the synoptic gospels.
Fortress, 2011, 288 pp., paperback $22.00
The Word Within Essays on Prophetic Quaker Faith by Patricia Dallmann
In these nine essays, the author argues for the necessity of reclaim- ing prophetic Quaker faith within present-day liberal Friends meetings, hoping that Friends might once again offer an authentic challenge and vital response to the human condition.
Foundation Publications, 2009, 84 pp., paperback $10.95
The Quaker Bible Reader edited by Paul Buckley and Stephen Angell
Thirteen very different Quakers look at portions of scripture, describe what they find, and how they have found it. Their goal is to
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