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6 de ene. de 2022 · George Keith had not always been cast as a villain among the Quakers. A well-respected educationalist, he was perhaps the most accomplished Quaker theologian of his generation; he was the older travelling partner of Robert Barclay, and the philosopher Henry More judged him to be ‘the best Quaker of them all’. 3 Yet, on moving across the Atlantic in 1685, he became disturbed by the low ...
20 de abr. de 2020 · George Keith, fifth Earl Marischal, has long been renowned for his wealth, his Protestantism and his foundation of Marischal College, Aberdeen. Miles Kerr-Peterson re-evaluates that reputation and, through examining some key aspects of Marischal's lordship, significantly modifies what we thought we knew about the man.
Introducing: George Keith’s An Exhortation & Caution to Friends Concerning Buying or Keeping of Negroes (New York, 1693) This 6-page pamphlet, the first protest against slavery printed in America, was from the press of William Bradford (1663–1752), and was among the earliest of his New York imprints. As discussed elsewhere at this website ...
What did they mean by the ‘Light within’? These were the central issues in the Keithian controversy: an explosive schism which broke out among Philadelphian Quakers in the 1690s when George Keith – arguably the most influential Quaker theologian of the seventeenth century – was accused of focusing too heavily on the Incarnate Jesus in ...
George Keith, 10th Earl Marischal (1692 or 1693 – 1778) was a Scottish Jacobite army officer and diplomat, who led Jacobite forces in the rising of 1719. He later joined in the Prussian Army and became a close confidant of Frederick the Great, serving as his ambassador to both France and Great Britain.
15 de jul. de 2021 · In 1705, George Keith became Rector of Edburton, Sussex, where his daughters Elizabeth and Margaret lived with him. For a period he continued writing against Quakers, but from 1710 was seriously ill. He was buried at Edburton on 29 March 1716. Marriage and Children. George Keith married Elizabeth Johnston on 5 June 1672 in Aberdeenshire.
Abstract. This chapter assesses the extent to which ordinary Quakers were affected by the theological changes traced through the preceding chapters, through a consideration of the Keithian controversy.
