BIBLIOGRAPHY OF QUAKER READINGS
The responses to this topic comprise an extensive bibliography on
Quaker beliefs and practises based on a list which originally
appeared in March 1991. They are as useful for the Friend as they
are for the seeker.
Index:
My thanks to all those who reviewed this list and made their own
suggestions. You continuing suggestions are welcome. Permission
to download and reprint granted.
A SHORT LIST FOR THE SEEKER
Revised November 1992 by Joel GAzis-SAx <jsax@IGC.APC.ORG>
- Recommended FRIENDS FOR 300 YEARS, Howard Brinton, Pendle Hill, 1952.
Combines history and interpretation in an excellent single volume
on the essentials of Quakerism.
- Recommended GUIDE TO QUAKER PRACTICE, Howard Brinton, Pendle Hill pamphlet
#20.
- Recommended THE FAITH AND PRACTICE OF QUAKERS, Rufus M. Jones, Doran, N.Y.,
1938.
- Recommended QUAKER SPIRITUALITY, ed. Douglas Steere, Paulist Press, 1984.
- Recommended BARCLAY'S APOLOGY IN MODERN ENGLISH, Dean Freiday, editor, 1967.
- Recommended THE AMAZING FACT OF QUAKER WORSHIP, George H. Gorman, Swarthmore
Lecture, 1973, Friends Home Service Committee, London.
- Recommended BEYOND MAJORITY RULE (VOTELESS DECISIONS IN THE RELIGIOUS
SOCIETY OF FRIENDS), Michael J. Sheeran, S.J., Philadelphia Yearly
Meeting of Religious Society of Friends, 1983.
- Recommended UNMASKING THE IDOLS: A JOURNEY AMONG FRIENDS, Douglas Gwyn,
Friends United Press, Richmond, Indiana, 1989.
- Recommended WHAT IS QUAKERISM?: A PRIMER, George T. Peck, Pendle Hill
Pamphlet #277.
- Recommended THE QUAKERS OR OUR NEIGHBORS, THE FRIENDS, William J. Whalen,
Friends General Conference, Philadelphia, 1984.
- Recommended FAITH AND PRACTICE: A QUAKER GUIDE TO CHRISTIAN DISCIPLINE,
Pacific Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends.
- Recommended FAITH AND PRACTICE: A BOOK OF CHRISTIAN DISCIPLINE,
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends.
- Recommended CHRISTIAN FAITH AND PRACTICE IN THE EXPERIENCE OF THE SOCIETY OF
FRIENDS, London Yearly Meeting.
- Recommended THE BEGINNINGS OF QUAKERISM, William C. Braithwaite, Rowntree
Series of Quaker Histories.
- Recommended PORTRAIT IN GREY (A SHORT HISTORY OF THE QUAKERS), John Punshon,
Quaker Home Service, London, 1984.
- Recommended THE QUIET REBELS: THE STORY OF THE QUAKERS IN AMERICA, Margaret
Hope Bacon, New Society Publishers, Philadelphia, 1985. includes
an introduction "The Quaker Contribution to Nonviolent Action."
- Recommended THE QUAKER PEACE TESTIMONY: 1660 TO 1914, Peter Brock, Sessions
Book Trust, York, 1990.
- Recommended THE JOURNAL OF GEORGE FOX.
- Recommended THE JOURNAL OF JOHN WOOLMAN.
- Recommended APOCALYPSE OF THE WORD, Douglas Gwyn, Friends United Press
(study guide available)
- Recommended A TESTAMENT OF DEVOTION, Thomas R. Kelly, Harper and Bros., NY,
1941.
- Recommended THERE IS A SPIRIT (SONNETS INSPIRED BY JAMES NAYLER), Kenneth
Boulding, Fellowship Publications, 1945.
- Recommended FRIENDLY STORY CARAVAN, Anna P. Broomell, Pendle Hill
Publications.
- Recommended A GUIDE FOR FRIENDS ON CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION TO WAR, Ben
Richmond, Friends United Meeting 1991
- Recommended NEW CALL FOR PEACEMAKERS (STUDY GUIDE), Faith and Life Press,
Newton, Kansas, 1979.
- Recommended BIBLICAL PACIFISM: A PEACE CHURCH PERSPECTIVE, Dale W. Brown,
HISTORY
- Recommended THE BEGINNINGS OF QUAKERISM, William C. Braithwaite, Rowntree
Series of Quaker Histories.
THE SECOND PERIOD OF QUAKERISM, William C. Braithwaite, Rowntree
Series of Quaker Histories.
- THE LATER PERIODS OF QUAKERISM, Rufus M. Jones (two volumes)
MacMillan and Co., Ltd. London, 1921.
- THE QUAKERS IN THE AMERICAN COLONIES, Rufus M. Jones, Russell and
Russell, Inc., New York, 1962.
- QUAKERISM ON THE AMERICAN FRONTIER, Erroll T. Elliot, Friends
United Press, Richmond, Indiana, 1969. (story of westward
migrations).
- QUAKERS IN CALIFORNIA, David C. LeShana, Barclay Press, Newberg,
Oregon, 1969.
- THE STORY OF QUAKERISM, Elfrida Vipont Foulds,. Friends United
Press, Richmond, Indiana, 1977.
- QUAKER QUOTATIONS ON FAITH AND PRACTICE, Leonard S. Kenworthy,
Friends General Conference, Philadelphia, Penn, 1983.
- UPHILL FOR PEACE, E. Raymond Wilson, Friends United Press 1975
- A PROCESSION OF FRIENDS: QUAKERS IN AMERICA, Daisy Newman,
Doubleday and Company, Garden City, NY, 1972.
- Recommended PORTRAIT IN GREY (A SHORT HISTORY OF THE QUAKERS), John Punshon,
Quaker Home Service, London, 1984.
- Recommended THE QUIET REBELS: THE STORY OF THE QUAKERS IN AMERICA, Margaret
Hope Bacon, New Society Publishers, Philadelphia, 1985. includes
an introduction "The Quaker Contribution to Nonviolent Action."
- Recommended THE QUAKER PEACE TESTIMONY: 1660 TO 1914, Peter Brock, Sessions
Book Trust, York, 1990.
JOURNALS AND BIOGRAPHY
- Recommended THE JOURNAL OF GEORGE FOX.
- Recommended THE JOURNAL OF JOHN WOOLMAN.
- Recommended APOCALYPSE OF THE WORD, Douglas Gwyn, Friends United Press
(study guide available)
- A SINCERE AND CONSTANT LOVE: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE WORK OF
MARGARET FELL, ed. Terry Wallace, Friends United Press.
- WILLIAM PENN, A BIOGRAPHY, Catherine Peare, Lippincott, 1956.
- FRIEND OF LIFE: THE BIOGRAPHY OF RUFUS M. JONES, Elizabeth Gray
Vining, J.B. Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1958.
- CLARENCE PICKETT: A MEMOIR, edited by Walter Kahoe, 1966.
- ELIZABETH FRY, QUAKER HEROINE, Janet Whitney, Little, Brown, Co.,
1936.
- VALIANT FRIEND: THE LIFE OF LUCRETIA MOTT, Margaret Hope Bacon,
Walker and Co., NY, 1980.
- CHINA GRAY, CHINA GREEN, J. Stuart Innerst.
- ETERNALLY YOURS, RALPH AND MAUDE POWELL'S LEGACY OF LETTERS, Celo
Press, 1979.
- LIFE ON TWO LEVELS, Josephine W. Duveneck, William Kaufmann, Los
Altos, 1978.
- GEORGE FOX'S BOOK OF MIRACLES, Henry Cadbury, Octagon Books, 1973.
- QUAKER JOURNALS, (Varieties of religious experience among
Friends), Howard H. Brinton, Pendle Hill Publications, 1972.
- LETTERS FROM SZECHWAN, (1923-1944), Margaret Simkin, Celo Press,
1978.
WORSHIP AND DEVOTION
- Recommended A TESTAMENT OF DEVOTION, Thomas R. Kelly, Harper and Bros., NY,
1941.
- THE ETERNAL PROMISE, Thomas R. Kelly, Harper and Row, NY, 1966.
- SPIRITUAL ENERGIES IN DAILY LIFE, Rufus M. Jones, MacMillain, 1949.
- THE WORLD IN TUNE, Elizabeth Gray Vining, Harper's, 1954.
- Recommended THERE IS A SPIRIT (SONNETS INSPIRED BY JAMES NAYLER), Kenneth
Boulding, Fellowship Publications, 1945.
- ON BEGINNING FROM WITHIN, Douglas V. Steere, Harper and Brothers,
NY, 1943.
- ON LISTENING TO ONE ANOTHER, Douglas V. Steere, Harper and
Brothers, NY, 1955.
- ON LISTENING TO GOD AND TO EACH OTHER, Dorothy Steere, The Wider
Fellowship, FWCC, Philadelphia.
- ON SPEAKING OUT OF THE SILENCE, Douglas V. Steere, #182 Pendle
Hill Pamphlet.
- THE QUIET IN THE LAND (SOME QUAKER SAINTS CHALLENGE US TODAY),
W.W. Lambert, The Epsworth Press, London, 1956.
- CREATIVE WORSHIP AND OTHER ESSAYS, Howard H. Brinton, Pendle Hill
Publications, 1957.
- THE QUIET EYE (A WAY OF LOOKING AT PICTURES), Sylvia Shaw Judson,
Regnery Gateway, 1982.
- WHAT IS MAN?, Floyd Schmoe, Voyagers Press Ltd., Rutland, Vermont,
1970.
- PRAYER AND WORSHIP, Margaret S. Gibbins, Friends World Committee
for Consultation, Friends Home Service Committee, London, 1977.
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
- FRIENDS AND THEIR CHILDREN, Harold Loukes, Geo. G. Harrap & Co.,
London, 1958.
- CHILDREN AND SOLITUDE, Elise Boulding, Pendle Hill pamphlet # 225.
- QUAKER EDUCATION IN THEORY AND PRACTICE, Howard H. Brinton, Pendle
Hill pamphlet # 9.
- THINGS CIVIL AND USEFUL, A PERSONAL VIEW OF QUAKER EDUCATION,
Helen G. Hole, Friends United Press, 1958.
- A MANUAL ON NON-VIOLENCE AND CHILDREN, Stephanie Judson, editor,
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1515 Cherry Street, Philadelphia,
Penn, 19102, 1977.
- STORY SONGS THAT SPIN THEMSELVES (language, songs, rhythmic play
for young children,) Molly Anderson Morgenroth, 1972, Pacific Oaks
Publications, 5 Westmoreland Place, Pasadena, CA, 91103)
- MEETING FOR LEARNING, Parker J. Palmer, Pendle Hill Bulletin #
284.
- TO KNOW AS WE ARE KNOWN, A SPIRITUALITY OF EDUCATION, Parker J.
Palmer, Harper and Row, NY, 1983.
- PEACE IN THE FAMILY (A WORKBOOK OF IDEAS AND ACTIONS), Lois Dorn,
Pantheon Books, NY, 1983.
- THE ALTERNATIVE CELEBRATING CATALOGUE, Milo Shannon-Thornberry,
Pilgrim Press, NY, 1982.
- Recommended FRIENDLY STORY CARAVAN, Anna P. Broomell, Pendle Hill
Publications.
PEACE AND SOCIAL CONCERNS
- Recommended A GUIDE FOR FRIENDS ON CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION TO WAR, Ben
Richmond, Friends United Meeting 1991
- SWORDS INTO PLOUGHSHARES, Mary Hoxie-Jones, An Account of the
American Friends Service Committee, 1917-1937, Macmillan, 1937.
- FOR MORE THAN BREAD, Clarence H. Pickett, Little, Brown, and
Company, Boston, 1953.
- THE POWER OF NON-VIOLENCE, Richard B. Gregg, Fellowship
Publications, 1959.
- TRADITION AND CHALLENGE (THE HISTORIC PEACE TESTIMONY OF THE
RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS), Harold Chance, Larchwood Press,
Philadelphia.
- STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE, A REPORT ON CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN AMERICA,
prepared for the AFSC, Hill and Wang, NY, 1971.
- THERE IS A RIVER: THE BLACK STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM IN AMERICA,
Vincent Harding, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1981.
- Recommended NEW CALL FOR PEACEMAKERS (STUDY GUIDE), Faith and Life Press,
Newton, Kansas, 1979.
- Recommended BIBLICAL PACIFISM: A PEACE CHURCH PERSPECTIVE, Dale W. Brown,
Brethren Press, Elgin, Ill., 1986.
GENERAL INTERPRETATION
- Recommended FRIENDS FOR 300 YEARS, Howard Brinton, Pendle Hill, 1952.
Combines history and interpretation in an excellent single volume
on the essentials of Quakerism.
- Recommended GUIDE TO QUAKER PRACTICE, Howard Brinton, Pendle Hill pamphlet
#20.
- Recommended THE FAITH AND PRACTICE OF QUAKERS, Rufus M. Jones, Doran, N.Y.,
1938.
- Recommended QUAKER SPIRITUALITY, ed. Douglas Steere, Paulist Press, 1984.
- JUST AMONG FRIENDS: THE QUAKER WAY OF LIFE, William Wistar
Comfort, NY: Macmillan, 1941.
- THE QUAKERS: THEIR STORY AND MESSAGE, A. Neave Brayshaw, Allen
and Unwin, Ltd., London, 5th Impression 1953.
- THE QUAKERS, Hugh Barbour and J. William Frost, Greenwood Press,
1988.
- THE QUAKER READER Pendle Hill, 1992
- THE STORY OF QUAKERISM, Elfida Vipont Foulds, The Bannisdale
Press, London, 1954.
- Recommended BARCLAY'S APOLOGY IN MODERN ENGLISH, Dean Freiday, editor, 1967.
- AUTHORITY, LEADERSHIP AND CONCERN, Roger C. Wilson, Swarthmore
Lecture 1949. (Revised edition 1970).
- FRIENDS AS LEADERS: THE VISION, INSTRUMENT, AND METHOD, reports
from 1979 workshop. Obtain from Pendle Hill.
- THE CANDLE OF THE LORD, Elfrida Vilpoint Foulds, Pendle Hill
Pamphlet, #248, 1983.
- Recommended THE AMAZING FACT OF QUAKER WORSHIP, George H. Gorman, Swarthmore
Lecture, 1973, Friends Home Service Committee, London.
- Recommended BEYOND MAJORITY RULE (VOTELESS DECISIONS IN THE RELIGIOUS
SOCIETY OF FRIENDS), Michael J. Sheeran, S.J., Philadelphia Yearly
Meeting of Religious Society of Friends, 1983.
- JUNG AND THE QUAKER WAY, Jack H. Wallis, Quaker Home Service,
London, 1988.
- Recommended UNMASKING THE IDOLS: A JOURNEY AMONG FRIENDS, Douglas Gwyn,
Friends United Press, Richmond, Indiana, 1989.
- Recommended WHAT IS QUAKERISM?: A PRIMER, George T. Peck, Pendle Hill
Pamphlet #277.
- Recommended THE QUAKERS OR OUR NEIGHBORS, THE FRIENDS, William J. Whalen,
Friends General Conference, Philadelphia, 1984.
- WHY ARE FRIENDS FRIENDS? Jack Willcotts, Barclay Press, Newburg,
Oregon
DISCIPLINES
Your local Meeting or Church may have another Faith and Practice
available. It is as good as any of these.
- Recommended FAITH AND PRACTICE: A QUAKER GUIDE TO CHRISTIAN DISCIPLINE,
Pacific Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends.
- Recommended FAITH AND PRACTICE: A BOOK OF CHRISTIAN DISCIPLINE,
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends.
- Recommended CHRISTIAN FAITH AND PRACTICE IN THE EXPERIENCE OF THE SOCIETY OF
FRIENDS, London Yearly Meeting.