Let your words be few : symbolism of speaking and silence among seventeenth-century Quakers
Print Book, English, 1983
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [Cambridgeshire], 1983
Controversial literature
viii, 168 pages ; 24 cm.
9780521255066, 9780521275149, 0521255066, 0521275148
9281842
Introduction : they say non speak like us
Let your words be few : speaking and silence in Queaker ideology
The true ministry of Christ : speaking and the ligitamcy of religious authority
Christ respects no man's person : the plain language and the rhetoric of impoliteness
Some plough, some weed out, and some sow : preaching and passage in the process of conversion
Going naked as a sign : the prophetic mission and the performance of metaphors
Swear not at all : oaths, social drama, and the conflict over political authority
Come together to wait upon God : the meeting for worship and the role conflict of the Quaker minister
Where is the power that was at first? : the prophetic ministry and the routinization of charisma