John Woolman’s Aesthetics of the Stranger
Language about strangers, including ‘the heart of a stranger’ specifically, appears with frequency throughout the writings of John Woolman. This article argues that the stranger, inspired to a great extent by passages from the Bible, was a central philosophical and theological concept around which W...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Liverpool University Press
2023
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Quaker studies
Year: 2023, Volume: 28, Issue: 2, Pages: 153-171 |
RelBib Classification: | KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBQ North America KDG Free church NBE Anthropology NBF Christology NCA Ethics VA Philosophy |
Further subjects: | B
Stranger
B Christology B Moral Philosophy B Sympathy B Aesthetics B John Woolman |
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Summary: | Language about strangers, including ‘the heart of a stranger’ specifically, appears with frequency throughout the writings of John Woolman. This article argues that the stranger, inspired to a great extent by passages from the Bible, was a central philosophical and theological concept around which Woolman’s thought was gathered. For Woolman the stranger also functioned as a literary figure that united various parts of his work in what I refer to comprehensively as an aesthetics of the stranger. Ultimately, Woolman writing about strangers reflected his understanding of Jesus Christ as a stranger, which was the ground from which all his thinking originated. |
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ISSN: | 2397-1770 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Quaker studies
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3828/quaker.2023.28.2.4 |