The People Called Quakers

How Have The Quakers Managed To Survive For Three Hundred Years Despite Persecution And Hostility? What Are Today'S Quakers Really Like? Dr. Trueblood Answers These Questions And Goes On To Show The Relevance Of Quakerism To The Needs And Perplexities Of These Times. This Is In No Sense A History Of The Quaker Movement. That History Has Been Written And Capably So. The Present Volume Is More Philosophical Than Historical Because It Is An Effort To Depict A People Who Represent One Experiment In Radical Christianity With Emphasis On Their Ways Of Thinking. The Author Creates Here A Broad Portrait Of A Way Of Life And A Way Of Thought. He Deals With Quaker Ideas As A Whole Rather Than With One Geographical Area Or One Theological Section Of The Quaker Community. Dr. Trueblood'S Purpose In Writing This Volume Is Ecumenical. In The Author'S Words Ours Is A Time Of Extreme Unsettlement And Consequent Searching…Far From Being Merely A Historically Interesting Movement Quakerism Is A Live Option…A Practical Alternative For Contemporary Men And Women.