J William Frost
Biographic Data
| ID | 977951 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J William Frost |
| GIVEN NAMES | J William |
| FAMILY NAME | Frost |
| SIGNATURE | FROST J W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swarthmore College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
William Penn
There is a tradition of Christian humanism from Erasmus, Grotius, Mornay, and Amyraut that Penn probably learnt at Saumur and that served as an undercurrent to the rest of his life. While it is impossible definitively to prove direct influence, the similarities between Amyraut’s ideas and Penn’s later perspectives make the possibility of influence likely
Palatines, Liberty, and Property
Quakers and Baptists in Colonial Massachusetts
"Our Deeds Carry Our Message"
'Our Deeds Carry Our Message": The Early History of the American Friends Service Committee J. William Frost* When I first announced that my next topic for research was the American Friends Service Committee, one of my Swarthmore College colleagues exclaimed, "That will be comparable to working on apple pie, or motherhood. Who could criticize the Service Committee?" Well, now we know that apple pies are full of saturated fats and cholesterol, and …
A Perfect Freedom
Church of England (the South) or several churches (New England and New York) contrasted Pennsylvanians' voluntary gifts with their situation.Pennsylvania became a symbol of a new republican pattern of religious liberty in opposition to a single or multiple establishment.The policies that New York and the southern states adopted before 1800 and that eventually came to prevail in New England resemble Pennsylvania's.After 1800 it was not that other …
A Perfect Freedom
Church of England (the South) or several churches (New England and New York) contrasted Pennsylvanians' voluntary gifts with their situation.Pennsylvania became a symbol of a new republican pattern of religious liberty in opposition to a single or multiple establishment.The policies that New York and the southern states adopted before 1800 and that eventually came to prevail in New England resemble Pennsylvania's.After 1800 it was not that other …
A Perfect Freedom
Church of England (the South) or several churches (New England and New York) contrasted Pennsylvanians' voluntary gifts with their situation.Pennsylvania became a symbol of a new republican pattern of religious liberty in opposition to a single or multiple establishment.The policies that New York and the southern states adopted before 1800 and that eventually came to prevail in New England resemble Pennsylvania's.After 1800 it was not that other …
A Perfect Freedom
The Quakers
Journal Article The Quakers. By Hugh Barbour and J. William Frost. (Westport: Greenwood, 1988. xiv + 409 pp. $65.00.) Get access Edwin B. Bronner Edwin B. Bronner Haverford College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 4, March 1990, Pages 1235–1236, https://doi.org/10.2307/2936603 Published: 01 March 1990
Forging Freedom
Seeking the Light
Journal Article Seeking the Light: Essays in Quaker History in Honor of Edwin B. Bronner. Ed. by J. William Frost and John M. Moore. (Wallingford: Pendle Hill/Friends Historical Association, 1986. viii + 214 pp. Paper, $16.00.) Get access Thomas D. Hamm Thomas D. Hamm Earlham College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 2, September 1987, Page 504, https://doi.org/1…
Friends and Neighbors
Book Notices
Journal Article Book Notices Get access Quakers in the Colonial Northeast. By Arthur J. WorrallHanover, NJ: University Press of New England, 1980, 238 pages, appendices, notes, glossary, index $12.50 ISBN 0-87451-174-7. J. William Frost J. William Frost Swarthmore College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLIX, Issue 4, December 1981, Pages 705–706, https:/…
American Religious History
AMERICAN RELIGIOUS HISTORY The Puritan Way of Death: A Study in Religion, Culture, and Social Change. By David E. Stannard. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977. xii+236 pages. $11.95. ISBN 0-19-502226-2. J. William Frost J. William Frost Swarthmore College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLVI, Issue 4, December 1978, Pages 589–590, https://doi.org/10.…
The Mechanicks of Internal Revolution
Asserting that recent historians have been mainly concerned with the why of the Revolution, Richard Ryerson has attempted to explain how in Pennsylvania a movement of convervative constitutional protest became a real revolution, drastically reordering the source of political power, creating new institutions, and replacing old leaders with new ones. What was the mechanism by which the radicals cast off British control and subverted the authority o…
Quaker Family Life
The Quaker Family in Colonial America
The Quaker Family in Colonial America
Journal Article The Quaker Family in Colonial America: A Portrait of the Society of Friends. By J. William Frost. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1973. vi + 248 pp. Appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $12.95.) Get access Duane E. Ball Duane E. Ball University of Michigan, Dearborn Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 61, Issue 2, September 1974, Pages 458–459, https://…
John Woolman
The Dry Bones of Quaker Theology
After having surveyed the barrenness of the valley in which were scattered skeletal remains, the prophet in the book of Ezekiel was asked, "O mortal man, can these bones live?" And his reply was not an optimistic "they will live" but rather "O Lord God, thou knowest." When the historian begins to discuss the common theological assumptions and issues which perplexed the seventeenth century, he does not know whether they can be put into a meaningfu…
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John Woolman
The Dry Bones of Quaker Theology
After having surveyed the barrenness of the valley in which were scattered skeletal remains, the prophet in the book of Ezekiel was asked, "O mortal man, can these bones live?" And his reply was not an optimistic "they will live" but rather "O Lord God, thou knowest." When the historian begins to discuss the common theological assumptions and issues which perplexed the seventeenth century, he does not know whether they can be put into a meaningfu…
The Quaker Family in Colonial America
Journal Article The Quaker Family in Colonial America: A Portrait of the Society of Friends. By J. William Frost. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1973. vi + 248 pp. Appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $12.95.) Get access Duane E. Ball Duane E. Ball University of Michigan, Dearborn Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 61, Issue 2, September 1974, Pages 458–459, https://…
Quaker Family Life
The Quaker Family in Colonial America
American Religious History
AMERICAN RELIGIOUS HISTORY The Puritan Way of Death: A Study in Religion, Culture, and Social Change. By David E. Stannard. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977. xii+236 pages. $11.95. ISBN 0-19-502226-2. J. William Frost J. William Frost Swarthmore College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLVI, Issue 4, December 1978, Pages 589–590, https://doi.org/10.…
The Mechanicks of Internal Revolution
Asserting that recent historians have been mainly concerned with the why of the Revolution, Richard Ryerson has attempted to explain how in Pennsylvania a movement of convervative constitutional protest became a real revolution, drastically reordering the source of political power, creating new institutions, and replacing old leaders with new ones. What was the mechanism by which the radicals cast off British control and subverted the authority o…
Book Notices
Journal Article Book Notices Get access Quakers in the Colonial Northeast. By Arthur J. WorrallHanover, NJ: University Press of New England, 1980, 238 pages, appendices, notes, glossary, index $12.50 ISBN 0-87451-174-7. J. William Frost J. William Frost Swarthmore College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLIX, Issue 4, December 1981, Pages 705–706, https:/…
Friends and Neighbors
Seeking the Light
Journal Article Seeking the Light: Essays in Quaker History in Honor of Edwin B. Bronner. Ed. by J. William Frost and John M. Moore. (Wallingford: Pendle Hill/Friends Historical Association, 1986. viii + 214 pp. Paper, $16.00.) Get access Thomas D. Hamm Thomas D. Hamm Earlham College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 2, September 1987, Page 504, https://doi.org/1…
Forging Freedom
The Quakers
Journal Article The Quakers. By Hugh Barbour and J. William Frost. (Westport: Greenwood, 1988. xiv + 409 pp. $65.00.) Get access Edwin B. Bronner Edwin B. Bronner Haverford College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 4, March 1990, Pages 1235–1236, https://doi.org/10.2307/2936603 Published: 01 March 1990
A Perfect Freedom
Church of England (the South) or several churches (New England and New York) contrasted Pennsylvanians' voluntary gifts with their situation.Pennsylvania became a symbol of a new republican pattern of religious liberty in opposition to a single or multiple establishment.The policies that New York and the southern states adopted before 1800 and that eventually came to prevail in New England resemble Pennsylvania's.After 1800 it was not that other …
A Perfect Freedom
Church of England (the South) or several churches (New England and New York) contrasted Pennsylvanians' voluntary gifts with their situation.Pennsylvania became a symbol of a new republican pattern of religious liberty in opposition to a single or multiple establishment.The policies that New York and the southern states adopted before 1800 and that eventually came to prevail in New England resemble Pennsylvania's.After 1800 it was not that other …
A Perfect Freedom
"Our Deeds Carry Our Message"
'Our Deeds Carry Our Message": The Early History of the American Friends Service Committee J. William Frost* When I first announced that my next topic for research was the American Friends Service Committee, one of my Swarthmore College colleagues exclaimed, "That will be comparable to working on apple pie, or motherhood. Who could criticize the Service Committee?" Well, now we know that apple pies are full of saturated fats and cholesterol, and …
A Perfect Freedom
Church of England (the South) or several churches (New England and New York) contrasted Pennsylvanians' voluntary gifts with their situation.Pennsylvania became a symbol of a new republican pattern of religious liberty in opposition to a single or multiple establishment.The policies that New York and the southern states adopted before 1800 and that eventually came to prevail in New England resemble Pennsylvania's.After 1800 it was not that other …
Quakers and Baptists in Colonial Massachusetts
Palatines, Liberty, and Property
William Penn
There is a tradition of Christian humanism from Erasmus, Grotius, Mornay, and Amyraut that Penn probably learnt at Saumur and that served as an undercurrent to the rest of his life. While it is impossible definitively to prove direct influence, the similarities between Amyraut’s ideas and Penn’s later perspectives make the possibility of influence likely
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