Rutgers professor presents lecture on Quakers Oct. 21

The university community is invited to a public lecture by a Rutgers professor, Andrew Murphy, who will present “Persecuting Quakers? The Politics of Conscience in Early Pennsylvania” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 21, in Hoover 105.

Murphy has written about religious liberty in general and on Quakers and religious liberty more specifically. Among his many publications are: Prodigal Nation: Moral Decline and Divine Punishment from New England to 9/11, Conscience and Community: Revisiting Toleration and Religious Dissent in Early Modern England and America, and The Political Writings of William Penn. He is currently writing a book entitled Liberty, Toleration, and Law: The Political Thought of William Penn.

Questions? Contact Mark David Hall (Political Science) at mhall@georgefox.edu.

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