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Certificate of Achievement

Randal Oulton

has completed the following course:

Radical Spirituality: the Early History of the Quakers

Lancaster University and Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre

This course studies the beginnings of the Quaker movement in 1652 focusing on three critical locations - Pendle Hill, Firbank Fell and Swarthmoor Hall in the northwest of England. It looks at how each place marked a distinct moment in the birth of the movement: vision, realisation and consolidation.

3 weeks, 3 hours per week

Ben Pink Dandelion

Professor of Quaker Studies

Lancaster University

Transcript

Learning outcomes

  • Develop an understanding of the civil war context of the beginnings of Quakerism
  • Engage with the key ideas of George Fox and the early Quakers
  • Explore the mode and content of early Quaker writing
  • Reflect on the consequences of key Quaker theological ideas
  • Assess the importance of the location of the beginnings of Quakerism
  • Develop an understanding of Quaker history after 1652

Syllabus

  • The context of the English Civil War
  • The religious ideas of George Fox and other early Quakers
  • The importance of Fox’s Pendle Hill Experience
  • The role of travel in the start of the Quaker movement
  • Fox’s sojourn in Sedbergh
  • The interiorised nature of Quaker spirituality
  • The popularity and unpopularity of Quakerism
  • Margaret Fell’s role in early Quakerism
  • Quaker history post 1652
  • Quakerism as a global faith

Issued on 11th May 2021

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Radical Spirituality: the Early History of the Quakers

Lancaster University