Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century EnglandThis study of radical prophecy in 17th-century England explores the significance of gender for religious visionaries between 1650 and 1700. Phyllis Mack focuses on the Society of Friends, or Quakers, the largest radical sectarian group active during the English Civil War and Interregnum. The meeting records, correspondence, almanacs, autobiographical and religious writings left by the early Quakers enable Mack to present a textured portrait of their evolving spirituality. Parallel sources on men and women provide a unique opportunity to pose theoretical questions about the meaning of gender, such as whether a "women's spirituality" can be identified, or whether religious women are more or less emotional than men. |
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... senses are flesh , as well as the pleasures of the world . Playfulness in old and young is flesh . . . . Time and all that is limited by it is flesh . . . . The honour of great men and the snobbishness of small men are flesh . Flesh is ...
... senses are flesh , as well as the pleasures of the world . Playfulness in old and young is flesh . . . . Time and all that is limited by it is flesh . . . . The honour of great men and the snobbishness of small men are flesh . Flesh is ...
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... sense of enhanced perception was also intensely physical . Her negation of her material body did not open the way to the sensational , out - of - the - body experiences of the modern occultist nor to the extreme self - loathing of the ...
... sense of enhanced perception was also intensely physical . Her negation of her material body did not open the way to the sensational , out - of - the - body experiences of the modern occultist nor to the extreme self - loathing of the ...
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... sense Luther gave the term , believed , nevertheless , in the real appearance or presence of God in human individuals and events . And this real presence was not tied to the ritual of a church or the hierarchy of a priesthood . It ...
... sense Luther gave the term , believed , nevertheless , in the real appearance or presence of God in human individuals and events . And this real presence was not tied to the ritual of a church or the hierarchy of a priesthood . It ...
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... senses , the female intelligence — wily , duplicitous , and above all ruled by appetite— had the inbuilt potential to create disorder , to be an enemy to culture . 41. St. George , " Heated Speech , " 293 . 42. In Milton's Paradise Lost ...
... senses , the female intelligence — wily , duplicitous , and above all ruled by appetite— had the inbuilt potential to create disorder , to be an enemy to culture . 41. St. George , " Heated Speech , " 293 . 42. In Milton's Paradise Lost ...
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... sense of divine mystery , as well as reflecting the doctrine that the last shall be first.45 Thus , Arise Evans , who edited the visions of Elinor Channel for publication in 1653 , em- phasized her catatonic behavior as she wandered ...
... sense of divine mystery , as well as reflecting the doctrine that the last shall be first.45 Thus , Arise Evans , who edited the visions of Elinor Channel for publication in 1653 , em- phasized her catatonic behavior as she wandered ...
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