LIBROS DEL AUTOR: douglas gwyn

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  • Towards Tragedy/Reclaiming Hope
    Douglas Gwyn / Pink Dandelion / Rachel Muers
    The ’death of tragedy’ in the modern era has been proposed and debated in recent years, largely in terms of literature and western culture in general. Today, any catastrophe or misadventure is likely to be labeled a ’tragedy’, without any inference of a larger, transcendent horizon or providential design that the word once conveyed. This book offers new perspectives on the i...
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    66,75 €

  • A Gathering of Spirits
    Douglas Gwyn
    This sweeping book tells about the development of Friends General Conference up to 1950, primarily through the lens of the Conferences.One central motif is that these biennial gatherings renewed the courage and resolve of Friends to face the daunting disappointments of the first half of the 20th century. Modernity promised great advances in human society and no group was more c...
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    19,81 €

  • Apocalypse of the Word
    Douglas Gwyn
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    25,18 €

  • A Sustainable Life
    Douglas Gwyn
    A well-known Quaker historian explores the qualities of Quaker faith and practice that contribute to living sustainably in the world today. He explores such paradoxes as equality and community, unity and differentiation, integrity and personal discernment, and other aspects of life that Quakers have worked to bring into balance through their 350-year history. How have Quakers l...
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    16,43 €

  • The Covenant Crucified
    Douglas Gwyn
    Doug Gwyn has researched and written extensively on early Quakers in 17th-century England. His other books include Apocalypse of the Word, and Seekers Found. He has taught at the Pendle Hill Quaker Study Center near Philadelphia, and at Woodbrooke in Birmingham, England. Doug has also worked with the American Friends Service Committee, and is Pastor of First Friends Church, Ric...
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    37,94 €