1956 Elias Hicks Quaker Liberal by Bliss Forbush- SIGNED 1ST EDITION

Description: Elias Hicks: Quaker Liberal by Bliss Forbush, with a Foreword by Frederick B. Tolles. Published in New York by Columbia University. 1956, 355pp, 6.5 x 9.5", 8vo, hardcover binding with original dust jacket. In good condition with minimal age-related wear. The dust jacket is in good conditon, with minimal toning and rubbing. The gray cloth boards are clean aside from minor rubbing. Inside the front board is a pasted-in bookplate with the words: "Presented by the H.H. Mosher Fund of New York Yearly Meeting". General age-related toning to the pages throughout. The half-title page is signed by the author. Includes frontispiece and plates throughout the pages. There is a fold-out in the rear. Please see our photographs and ask any questions prior to purchasing. A rare 1956 first edition signed by the author. Elias Hicks (1748-1830) was a traveling Quaker Minister from Long Island, New York. In his ministry he promoted unorthodox doctrines that led to controversy, which caused the second major schism within the Religious Society of Friends. He was acknowledged as a recorded minister and drew large crowds. In November 1829, the young Walt Whitman (1819-1892) heard Hicks preach at Morrison’s Hotel in Brooklyn, and later said, "Always Elias Hicks gives the service of pointing to the fountain of all naked theology, all religion, all worship, all the truth to which you are possibly eligible—namely in yourself and your inherent relations. Others talk of Bibles, saints, churches, exhortations, vicarious atonements—the canons outside of yourself and apart from man—Elias Hicks points to the religion inside of man's very own nature. This he incessantly labors to kindle, nourish, educate, bring forward and strengthen." FORN-SHELF-0549-BB-2406-eb0755

Price: 75 USD

Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

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