How Long to Read Quakers, Christ, and the Enlightenment

How Long Does it Take to Read Quakers, Christ, and the Enlightenment?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 57 minutes to read Quakers, Christ, and the Enlightenment by Madeleine Pennington

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The Quakers were by far the most successful of the radical religious groups to emerge from the turbulence of the mid-seventeenth century—and their survival into the present day was largely facilitated by the transformation of the movement during its first fifty years. What began as a loose network of charismatic travelling preachers was, by the start of the eighteenth century, a well-organised and international religious machine. This shift is usually explained in terms of a desire to avoid persecution, but Quakers, Christ, and the Enlightenment argues instead for the importance of theological factors as the major impetus for change. In the first sustained account of the theological changes guiding the development of seventeenth-century Quakerism, Madeleine Pennington explores the Quakers' positive intellectual engagement with those outside the movement to offer a significant reassessment of the causal factors determining the development of early Quakerism. Considering the Quakers' engagement with such luminaries as Baruch Spinoza, Henry More, John Locke, and John Norris, Pennington unveils the Quakers' concerted attempts to bolster their theological reputation through the refinement of their central belief in the 'inward Christ', or 'the Light within'. In doing so, she further challenges stereotypes of early modern radicalism as anti-intellectual and ill-educated. Rather, the theological concerns of the Quakers and their interlocutors point to a crisis of Christology weaving through the intellectual milieu of the seventeenth century, which has long been under-estimated as significant fuel for the emerging Enlightenment.

How long is Quakers, Christ, and the Enlightenment?

Quakers, Christ, and the Enlightenment by Madeleine Pennington is 288 pages long, and a total of 74,304 words.

This makes it 97% the length of the average book. It also has 91% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Quakers, Christ, and the Enlightenment Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 46 minutes to read Quakers, Christ, and the Enlightenment aloud.

What Reading Level is Quakers, Christ, and the Enlightenment?

Quakers, Christ, and the Enlightenment is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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