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Intro -- Contents -- "To Renew the Covenant" -- Abstract -- Keywords -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: The Everlasting Covenant in Religion and Politics -- 1.1 Quaker Beginnings -- 1.2 Early Quakers and Slavery -- 1.3 Pennsylvania and Providential History -- 1.4 The Quaker Covenant in the Eighteenth Century -- 1.5 Outline of To Renew the Covenant -- 2 Literature Review: Developments in the Field -- 2.1 Historical and Cultural Arguments for Understanding Quaker Antislavery -- 2.2 Biographical Approaches to Quaker Antislavery Stances -- 2.3 Interdisciplinary Volumes on Quaker Antislavery Topics -- 3 "Strangers in the Land": the Rise of Quaker Abolitionism(1688-1741) -- 3.1 The Germantown Protest -- 3.2 George Keith's Exhortation -- 3.3 Robert Pile's Paper -- 3.4 1696-1715: Quiet Development From Below -- 3.5 John Hepburn's American Defense of the Christian Golden Rule -- 3.6 Ralph Sandiford's A Brief Examination of the Practice of the Times and The Mystery of Iniquity -- 3.7 Elihu Coleman's Testimony against that Antichristian Practice of Making Slaves of Men -- 3.8 Benjamin Lay's All Slave-Keepers That Keep the Innocent in Bondage, Apostates Pretending to Lay Claim to the Pure & Holy Christian Religion -- 3.9 John Bell's An Epistle to Friends in Maryland, Virginia, Barbadoes, and the other Colonies, and Islands in the West-Indies, where any Friends are -- 3.10 Conclusion -- 4 To be Redeemed from Babylon: the Antislavery Theology of John Woolman and Anthony Benezet -- 4.1 John Woolman and the Apocalypse of the Heart -- Anthony Benezet and the Broadening of Quaker Antislavery Discourse -- 4.3 Conclusion -- 5 The Quaker Antislavery Groundswell -- 5.1 The Quaker Reformation -- 5.2 Religious Themes in An Epistle of Caution and Advice (1754) -- 5.3 The Broadening of Antislavery Action

ON THE MORNING OF NOVEMBER 14, 1766, some Philadelphia Quakers hastened to prepare a parcel to put in the hands of John Griffith, a traveling minister who was about to board a ship that day and return to England. Griffith had arrived in Philadelphia in September 1765, and over the next year he visited Quaker meetings up and down the Atlantic seaboard from North Carolina to New Hampshire, taking their spiritual pulse, preaching the gospel, and calling for a revival of vital piety among Friends. By September 1766 he felt that his work was finished, and so he informed the ministers and elders of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting on the twenty-seventh of that month of his desire to return home. Three men were duly appointed to write a certificate for Griffith "Expressive of Our Unity with his Gospel Labours among us," one of whom was Anthony Benezet, the schoolmaster, reformer, and pamphleteer. Benezet was attending the Yearly Meeting as a representative of the Burlington (New Jersey) Quarterly Meeting along with his friends John Smith, a councilor in New Jersey's royal government, and John Woolman, the pioneering antislavery reformer, among others. Certificate in hand, Griffith learned that the ship Phoebe would shortly be departing for London, and so he booked passage aboard her and arrived at Dartmouth, England, on Christmas Day after a six-week voyage.

Justin (ca. 100-ca. 165) and Cyprian (ca. 300) --The Acts of Paul and Thecla (Second Century) --Pelagius (Late Fourth and Early Fifth Centuries CE) --Joachim of Fiore (1135-1202) and Peter Olivi (1248-1298) --Marguerite Porete (d. 1310) --John Ball (d. 1381) --William Langland (1330-1387) --Jan Hus (ca. 1372-1415) --Lollard Sermon for Christmas Day on Luke 2:1-14 (Early Fifteenth Century) --Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498) --Defending the Indians --Argula von Grumbach (ca. 1492-1554) --Thomas M{uml}untzer (1489?-1525) --William Tyndale (1494-1536) --Early Anabaptist Writings --The Family of Love --Early Baptist Worship --Thomas Helwys (ca. 1550-ca. 1616) --The Levellers --John Milton (1608-1674) --Gerrard Winstanley (1609-1676) --Abiezer Coppe (1619-1672) --Anna Trapnel (ca. 1654) --Priscilla Cotton and Mary Cole --Anne Wentworth (ca. 1679) --James Nayler (ca. 1617-1660) --John Bunyan (1628-1688) --William Blake (1757-1827) --John Woolman (1720-1772) --The Narrative of Sojourner Truth (ca. 1797-d1883) --Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) --Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) --Joseph Arch (1826-1919) --Henry Scott Holland (1847-1918) --Padraig Pearse (1879-1916) --Frank Weston (1871-1924) --The Barmen Declaration (1934) --Dorothy Day (1897-1980) --The Worker-Priests --Jacques Ellul (1912-1994) --Alan Ecclestone (1904-1992) --Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) --Camilo Torres (1929-1966) --Dorothee Soelle (1929- ) --The Solentiname Community (1966-1977) --Steve Biko (1946-1977) --Stanley Hauerwas on John Howard Yoder (1927-1997) --William Stringfellow (1928-1985) --Ian M. Fraser --Carter Heyward --Herbert McCabe (1926-2001) --Oscar Romero (1917-1980) --John Vincent (1929- ) --The Kairos Document (1985) --Carlos Mesters --The Interpretative Method of "Unlock" --Theology from the Perspective of "Third-World" Women --Sigqibo Dwane --Sara Maitland --Kenneth Leech (1939- ) --Daniel Berrigan (1921- ) --Gustavo Guti{acute}errez (1928- ) --Thomas Hanks.

Introduction: Anthony Benezet: a transatlantic life and legacy / Marie-Jeanne Rossignol and Bertrand Van Ruymbeke -- Part I. Anthony Benezet's French heritage -- The Vaunageole and Cevenole roots of Anthony Benezet / Bernard Douzil -- Being Huguenot in the Vermandois during the 17th and 18th centuries / Didier Boisson -- Anthony Benezet the Huguenot: a family odyssey across the 18th-century refuge / Bertrand Van Ruymbeke -- Part II. Benezet and the Quaker community in the British Atlantic world -- Anthony Benezet: the emergence of a weighty friend / J. William Frost -- On war and slavery: Benezet's peace testimony and abolition / David L. Crosby -- Anthony Benezet, John Woolman, and praise / Geoffrey Plank -- Nantucket Quakers and negotiating the politics of the Atlantic world / Richard C. Allen -- Part III. Benezet's writings from an Atlantic perspective -- Anthony Benezet as intermediary between the transatlantic and provincial: New Jersey's antislavery campaign on the eve of the American Revolution / Jonathan D. Sassi -- The circulation of early Quaker antislavery books: a transatlantic passage? / Louisiane Ferlier -- Anthony Benezet's antislavery reputation in France: an investigation / Marie-Jeanne Rossignol -- "This precious book": Africa and Africans in Anthony Benezet's account of Guinea / Randy J. Sparks -- Benezet's ghost: revisiting the antislavery culture of Benjamin Rush's Philadelphia / Nina Reid-Maroney -- From Benezet to black founders: toward a new history of 18th-century Atlantic emancipation / Richard S. Newman

It is beyond debate that human beings are the primary cause of climate change. Many think of climate change as primarily a scientific, economic, or political problem, and those perspectives inform Kevin O'Brien's analysis. But O'Brien argues that we should respond to climate change first and foremost as a case of systematic and structural violence. As he points out, global warming is primarily caused by the carbon emissions of the affluent, emissions that harm the poor first and worst. Climate change divides human beings from one another and from the earth; in short, global warming and climate change is violence. In order to sustain a constructive and creative response to this violence, he contends, society needs practical examples of activism and nonviolent peacemaking. O'Brien identifies five such examples from US history, providing brief biographies of heroic individuals whose idealism and social commitment and political savvy can model the fight against climate change and for climate justice: Quaker abolitionist John Woolman; social reformer Jane Addams; Catholic worker advocate Dorothy Day; civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.; and union organizer Cesar Chavez. These moral exemplars, all of whom were motivated by their Christian faith, serve as witnesses to those seeking to make peace in response to the violence of climate change

It is beyond debate that human beings are the primary cause of climate change. Many think of climate change as primarily a scientific, economic, or political problem, and those perspectives inform Kevin O'Brien's analysis. But O'Brien argues that we should respond to climate change first and foremost as a case of systematic and structural violence. As he points out, global warming is primarily caused by the carbon emissions of the affluent, emissions that harm the poor first and worst. Climate change divides human beings from one another and from the earth; in short, global warming and climate change is violence. In order to sustain a constructive and creative response to this violence, he contends, society needs practical examples of activism and nonviolent peacemaking. O'Brien identifies five such examples from US history, providing brief biographies of heroic individuals whose idealism and social commitment and political savvy can model the fight against climate change and for climate justice: Quaker abolitionist John Woolman; social reformer Jane Addams; Catholic worker advocate Dorothy Day; civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.; and union organizer Cesar Chavez. These moral exemplars, all of whom were motivated by their Christian faith, serve as witnesses to those seeking to make peace in response to the violence of climate change

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction to the 2024 Edition -- Not All Divides Are Created Equal -- On Taproots and Trust -- Restoring Democratic Habits of the Heart -- Race in America -- People Can Change -- Prelude: The Politics of the Brokenhearted -- Chapter I Democracy's Ecosystem -- Diversity, Tension, and Democracy -- Truth, Suffering, and Hope -- The John Woolman Story -- What Lies Ahead -- Chapter II Confessions of an Accidental Citizen -- Citizenship and the Common Good -- Faith and Doubt in Politics -- Hearts Broken Open to Hope -- The Story Behind the Story -- Tocqueville in America -- Five Habits of the Heart -- Holding Hands and Climbing -- Chapter III The Heart of Politics -- The Heart and Realpolitik -- A Farmer's Heart -- The Power of Heartbreak -- Two Kinds of Heartbreak Examined -- Diagnosing Our "Heart Disease" -- The Self a Democracy Needs -- Chapter IV The Loom of Democracy -- Learning to Hold Tension Creatively -- The Endless Argument -- The Endless Challenge -- Beyond Fight or Flight -- Democracy and Self-Transcendence -- Chapter V Life in the Company of Strangers -- No Strangers Allowed -- The Meaning of Public Life -- The Places and Purposes of Public Life -- Public Power in a Democracy -- The Decline of Public Life -- Reclaiming Space for Public Life -- The Promise of Neighborhoods -- Imagining the Public Life -- Chapter VI Classrooms and Congregations -- Where Classrooms and Congregations Converge -- Public Education and the Inner Search -- Doing Democracy in School -- The Hidden Curriculum -- Congregations and Habits of the Heart -- Who's in Charge Here? -- Power and Potluck Suppers -- Decision Making and Counseling -- A Theology of Hospitality -- Chapter VII Safe Space for Deep Democracy -- When the Media Define Reality -- Getting the News from Within -- From Solitude to Circles of Trust.