Modern British Heresy

Meandering through some heresy links (when I ought to have been concentrating on something else), I came across a significant discussion of heresy linked to the announcement of  The Journal of Controversial Ideas , to be published next year.  I recognise I'm late to notice them though, in mitigation, I've never worked in academia.  And conflict over the acceptability or toleration of ideas in American academia isn't my field or focus. However: The journal describes itself as a forum for careful, rigorous, unpolemical discussion of issues that are widely considered controversial, in the sense that certain views about them might be regarded by many people as morally, socially, or ideologically objectionable or offensive.  The aim of the journal is to enable people to publish ideas that they reasonably expect will be regarded by some as offensive, immoral, or dangerous. Authors may use a pseudonym, if they so choose.  ( here )  See the Heterodox Academy  ...

Hannah Barnard: in England , in America Main sources :  Foster, T. (1801). An appeal to the Society of Friends: On the primitive simplicity of their Christian principles and church discipline ;  Barnard, H., & Foster, T. (1804). A Narrative of the Proceedings in America, of the Society called Quakers, in the case of Hannah Barnard. With a brief review of the previous transactions in Great Britain and Ireland: intended as a sequel to an Appeal to the Society of Friends. [By Thomas Foster.] . London: J. Johnson. See also: New Light on Hannah Barnard , A Quaker "Heretic", David W. Maxey, Quaker History, Vol. 78, No. 2 (Fall 1989), pp. 61-8. Friend Hannah Barnard , Austin Meredith. Hanna Barnard - A liberal Quaker hero , Chuck Fager Note: I am surprised not to have discovered more scholarly work on Hannah Barnard, and no Doctoral thesis. It may be that it is there but I’ve not found it. I think she deserves and would reward much more detailed study. ________ Timeline, most...