Wil Cooper-Quaker theologian, teacher, and author-sets forth the theology and faith of the "plain people" of Quakerdom. His personal story brings that theology to life in an intimate way and gives us a glimpse of day-to-day life of Middleton, Ohio Conservative Friends in the early 1900's. You will delight in this story of a Quaker culture that has wisdom to offer Friends today and its impact on the life of Wilmer Cooper, founding dean of the Earlham School of Religion.
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Wilmer (Wil) Cooper, a lifelong member of the Religious Society of Friends, grew up among Conservative Wilburite Friends in eastern Ohio. A graduate of Wilmington College, with graduate degrees from Haverford College, Yale Divinity School, and Vanderbilt University, Wil Cooper began his public career with the Friends Committee on National Legislation in Washington, D.C. He joined the Earlham College faculty in 1959 and was the founding dean of Earlham School of Religion from 1960-78, from which he retired in 1985. He is the author of The ESR Story: A Quaker Dream come True, A Living Faith: An Historical Study of Quaker Beliefs, and The Quaker Testimony of Integrity in the Religion Society of Friends. Wil and Emily Cooper are members of West Richmond (Indiana) Friends Meeting. They live at Friends Fellowship Community in Richmond and retreat to Palm Harbor, Florida for the winters.
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An excellent insider's account of Conservative Quakerism,
This review is from: Growing Up Plain Among Conservative Wilburite Quakers: The Journey of a Public Friend (Paperback)
In a rare display of the ability to bridge two worlds that are so strikingly different, Mr. Cooper has the gift of being able to invite the reader into the world of Conservative Quakerism, without making him feel as if he has just been preached to. Mr. Cooper is quite unusual in that he seems to be able to appreciate (and therefore communicate with) both worlds, both the modern secular world we find ourselves in today, and also the rarified (but perhaps just as valid) world of Conservative Quakerism which is apparently structured around a belief that the ideals of "simplicity" and the "peace of the indwelling spirit" are still two very real and attainable virtues and are not merely two more sad casualties along the side of our modern information superhighway.
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Conservative Friends represent a stream of Quaker history that had its beginning in the seventeenth century and continued through the Quietistic period of Quakerism in the eighteenth century. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
waiting worship, yearly meeting, meeting for worship, plain life, quarterly meeting, plain dress Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Conservative Friends, Religious Society of Friends, Ohio Yearly Meeting, Holy Spirit, Friends Boarding School, George Fox, North Carolina, Uncle Cyrus, Earlham College, Brief Synopsis, Wilmington College, Earlham School of Religion, John Wilbur, Principles of Quakerism, Arch Street, Conservative Wilburite Friends, Jesus Christ, Robert Barclay's Apology, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, Rufus Jones, Yale Divinity School, Friends United Meeting, Lord's Supper, New England, William Penn New!
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Conservative Friends represent a stream of Quaker history that had its beginning in the seventeenth century and continued through the Quietistic period of Quakerism in the eighteenth century. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
waiting worship, yearly meeting, meeting for worship, plain life, quarterly meeting, plain dress Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Conservative Friends, Religious Society of Friends, Ohio Yearly Meeting, Holy Spirit, Friends Boarding School, George Fox, North Carolina, Uncle Cyrus, Earlham College, Brief Synopsis, Wilmington College, Earlham School of Religion, John Wilbur, Principles of Quakerism, Arch Street, Conservative Wilburite Friends, Jesus Christ, Robert Barclay's Apology, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, Rufus Jones, Yale Divinity School, Friends United Meeting, Lord's Supper, New England, William Penn New!
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- No Cross, No Crown: The Original Exposition On the Cross of Jesus Christ by William Penn on 5 pages
- First Day (A Dewey Does book) by John Cooper on 4 pages
- The Holy Spirit in Puritan Faith and Experience by Geoffrey F. Nuttall on page 84
- My Friends (Talk-about-Books) by Debbie Bailey on page 75
- George Washington (Childhoods of the Presidents) by Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr. on page 101
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