The Christian Quaker: George Keith and the Keithian Controversy, by Madeleine Ward

Author: Madeleine Ward. Review by Simon Webb

'She puts theology back at the heart of it, tracing the development of Keith’s theology through several decades.' | Photo: George Keith portrait / Book cover of The Christian Quaker: George Keith and the Keithian Controversy, by Madeleine Ward

George Keith was an important early Quaker, but, as Madeleine Ward reminds us in this book, this fascinating Scot is little-known among modern Friends. Little-known and even worse understood: Ward implies that scholars have tended to get him wrong.

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