Certificate of Achievement
Mary Templeman Hogg - O'Rourke
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 27th October 2019
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