Mary Garman

The Christian Gospel calls women and men into full participation with God's realm of love and truth. Seventeenth-century Quaker women preached and traveled in the ministry with a powerful understanding of how God moves people to truth. They wrote of their understanding in tracts of proclamation, journals, travel narratives, letters, and epistles; this volume includes thirty-six original terxts with interpretive introductions. Their writings are life-giving to the discourse of lay clergy, ordaned ministers, serious religious seekers, and academic researchers in religion, history, and women's studies.… (mer)

The Christian Gospel calls women and men into full participation with God's realm of love and truth. Seventeenth-century Quaker women preached and traveled in the ministry with a powerful understanding of how God moves people to truth. They wrote of their understanding in tracts of proclamation, journals, travel narratives, letters, and epistles; this volume includes thirty-six original terxts with interpretive introductions. Their writings are life-giving to the discourse of lay clergy, ordaned ministers, serious religious seekers, and academic researchers in religion, history, and women's studies.… (mer)

The title of this compendium of early Quaker writings (1650-1700) refers to their curious neglect, as they had been unknown and unexplored, save by experts, for centuries. These document the prominence of Quaker women as leaders in reform movements, who underwent exile, long imprisonment, and torture, all the while in close touch with their families. Included are tracts of proclamation and warning; journals and travel narratives, theological works, epistles and letters. For example, a letter in 1662, "Written in the Inquisition-Prison by the hand of Sarah Cheevers, for the hand of Henry Cheevers, my dear Husband; give this, fail not...being put into prison for God's Truth, there to remain all days of my life, being searched, tryed, examined upon pain of death;... let it be done, never so secret; the Lord will rip up all covering that is not of his own Spririt. The God of Peace be with you all. Amen." --FN… (mer)