Gospel Order — Reading List

“Shalom and Gospel Order”. A Quaker Stew, entry posted June 5, 2010.

Benson, Lewis. “The Quaker Conception of Christian Community and Church Order.” In Catholic Quakerism: A Vision for all Men. Philadelphia: Book and Publications Committee, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, 1968.

Binns, Mildred. What Doth The Lord Require of Thee? Pendle Hill Pamphlet 145. Wallingford, Pennsylvania: Pendle Hill Publications, 1966.

Brinton, Howard H. Quaker Journals: Varieties of Religious Experience among Friends. Wallingford, Pennsylvania: Pendle Hill Publications, 1972.

Craven, Dorothy H. “Accountability: A Biblical Approach.” Quaker Religious Thought 61 (January 1, 1985): 18–30. Web: Accountability A Biblical Approach.pdf.

Comments by Perry Yoder in Quaker Religious Thought 61 (January 1, 1985): 31–35. Web: Comments.pdf.

Cronk, Sandra L. Gospel Order: A Quaker Understanding of Faithful Church Community. Pendle Hill Pamphlet 297. Wallingford, Pennsylvania: Pendle Hill Publications, 1991.

Damiano, Kathryn. “On Earth as it is in Heaven: Eighteenth-Century Quakerism as Realized Eschatology.” Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Union of Experimenting Colleges and Universities: Cincinnati, Ohio, December 1988.

Davison, Steven. “Gospel order” category. Through the Flaming Sword, series of posts, July 31, 2011–.

Foster, Richard J. Freedom of Simplicity. Harper & Row, 1981.

Fox, George. “A Collection of Many Select and Christian Epistles, Letters, and Testimonies, Written on Sundry Occasions by that ancient, eminemt, and faithful Friend, and minister of Christ Jesus, George Fox.” Two volumes, published as part of The Works of George Fox, Vols. 7 & 8. Philadelphia: Marcus T. C. Gould and New York: Isaac T. Hopper, 1831.

Fox, George. The Journal of George Fox. Rev. ed. Edited by John K. Nickalls. London: Religious Society of Friends, 1975.

Frost, J. William. The Quaker Family in Colonial America: A Portrait of the Society of Friends. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1973.

Gwyn, Douglas. Apocalypse of the Word: The Life and Message of George Fox (1624-1691). Richmond, Indiana: Friends United Press, 1986.

Jones, Rufus. The Later Periods of Quakerism, Vol. 1. London: Macmillan, 1921.

Jones, T. Canby. “Knowing One Another in That Which is Eternal: Is Gospel Order Possible Today?” Unpublished manuscript. February 1979.

Marietta, Jack D. The Reformation of American Quakerism, 1748–1783. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1984.

Martin, John R. Ventures in Discipleship: A Handbook for Groups and Individuals. Scottsdale, Pennsylvania: Herals Press, 1984.

Mercer, C. Morningbear Cullimore. “Gospel Order – I Insist.” QuakerQuaker, entry posted August 28, 2009.

Moore, Charles E. “The Blessings of Conflict: Peacemaking Within Community.” Plough Quarterly, July 20, 2015.

Moore, John, ed. Friends in the Delaware Valley: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1681–1981. Haverford, Pennsylvania: Friends Historical Association, 1981.

Palmer, Parker. A Place Called Community. Pendle Hill Pamphlet 202. Wallingford, Pennsylvania: Pendle Hill Publications, 1977.

Penington, Isaac. Letters of Isaac Penington, A Minister of the Gospel in the Society of Friends, which He Joined about the Year 1658. 2d ed. Philadelphia: Friends Book-Store, undated.

Penington, Isaac. “Of the Church in its First and Pure State, and its Declining State, in its Declined State, and in its Recovery.” In The Works of the Long-Mournful and Sorely Distressed Isaac Penington. 3d ed. London: James Phillips, 1784. 3:133–7.

Punshon, John. Portrait in Grey: A Short History of the Quakers. London: Quaker Home Service, 1984.

Thomas, Charles F, ed. The Church in Quaker Thought and Practice: A Study in Ecclesiology. Faith and Life Movement: Distributed by Friends World Committee, Section of the Americas in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Plainfield, Indiana, 1979.

Tolles, Frederick B. Meeting House and Counting House: The Qualker Merchants of Colonial Philadelphia, 1652–1763. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1948.

Vann, Richard T. The Societal Development of English Quakerism, 1655–1755. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1969.

Weaver,William Woys. The Marlborough Footwashing: A Remarkable Anecdote of Peace and Harmony from the Year 1782. Chester Springs, Pennsylvania: Firbank Press, 1981.

Wilson, Lloyd Lee. Essays on the Quaker Vision of Gospel Order.

Wood, Peter. Eldering. Canadian Quaker Pamphlet 27. Argenta, British Columbia: Argenta Friends Press, 1987.