Thomas C Kennedy British Quakerism.


Thomas C Kennedy British Quakerism, 1660-1920: The Transformation of a Religious Community. recent York: Oxford University Press. 2001 Pp xv 477 $9000 ISBN 0-19-827035-6

This work is an important contribution to Quaker history, because of its exhaustive use of original archives and correspondence. Whereas Elizabeth Isichei's Victorian Quakers (1970) had brace brief chapters on theology, Kennedy destines much more attention to this than previous parts The "transformation" in the title is that from a predominantly quietist and evangelical motion to one which under



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