Quakering Theology

Author : David L. Johns
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317072997

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Quakering Theology by David L. Johns Pdf

Quakers exist neither for themselves nor by themselves alone. Therefore, they ought not to construct Quaker theologies but rather quaker (verb) theology-to add their fingerprints to the larger conversation. David Johns contributes to a Quaker way of thinking theologically but also invites others to think through their denominational identities into a more expansive and ecumenical space. Placing contemporary Quaker thought in conversation with the wider theological tradition, Johns shows that Quakers have something important to contribute to the wider Christian family and he demonstrates how other groups may enter this conversation as well. Some themes explored may not spring immediately to mind as ’Quaker themes’-the saints, C.S. Lewis, sacraments, ritual, and Shakespeare-but Johns argues these are precisely the kind of issues that require Quaker fingerprints-that require quakering.

Author : Christy Randazzo
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004425064

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Liberal Quaker Reconciliation Theology: A Constructive Approach by Christy Randazzo Pdf

This work brings the fields of Christian theologies of atonement and reconciliation and Liberal Quaker theology into dialogue, and lays the foundation for developing an original Liberal Quaker reconciliation theology. This dialogue focuses specifically on the metaphorical language employed to describe the relationship of interdependence between humans and God, which both traditions hold as integral to their conceptions of human and divine existence. It focuses on these areas: the sin of human division and exclusion; atonement and reunification of humans and God as a response to sin; and the metaphors Liberal Quaker use to describe this interdependent relationship, specifically the metaphor of Light. This unique approach develops an original model of reconciliatory interdependence between humans and God that is rooted in both Christological and Universalist Liberal Quaker metaphorical and theological categories and utilizes the Liberal Quaker language of God as interdependent Light towards a new theology.

Author : Zachary Moon
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004462106

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Goatwalking: A Quaker Pastoral Theology by Zachary Moon Pdf

Inspired by Jim Corbett’s free-range pastoralism of ‘goatwalking,’ this work gleans a pastoral theology from the wealth of practical wisdom within the Quaker tradition, giving particular attention to Corbett’s foci of alertness, adaptability, symbiotic relationships, and co-creativity.

Author : Rhiannon Grant
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781789040821

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Quaker Quicks - Telling the Truth About God by Rhiannon Grant Pdf

Telling the truth about God without excluding anyone is a challenge to the Quaker community. Drawing on the author’s academic research into Quaker uses of religious language and her teaching to Quaker and academic groups, Rhiannon Grant aims to make accessible some key theological and philosophical insights. She explains that Quakers might sound vague but are actually making clear and creative theological claims. Theology isn't just for wordy people or intellectuals, it's for everyone. And that's important because our religious language is related to, not separate from, our religious experience. It also becomes clear that denying other people's claims often leads to making your own and that even apparently negative positions can also be making positive statements. How do Quakers tell the truth about God? This book explores this key theological process through fourteen short chapters. As Quakers, we say that we know some things, but not very much, about God, and that we are in a constant process of trying to improve our ways of saying what we do know.

Author : J. Brent Bill
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781789046205

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Hope and Witness in Dangerous Times by J. Brent Bill Pdf

This book invites all people of faith to consider how our personal and communal faith practices in growing deeper spirituality should bring us to a fresh engagement with the needs of this world. This includes being active in promoting those values which align with our understanding of the gospel and standing against injustice, oppression, and evil inflicted on any of God’s children. Such activism, rooted in deep spirituality, may include being what Quaker civil rights activist Bayard Rustin called “angelic troublemakers.”

Author : Rhiannon Grant
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004431553

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Theology from Listening: Finding the Core of Liberal Quaker Theological Thought by Rhiannon Grant Pdf

Rhiannon Grant explores continuities in liberal Quaker theology through close analysis of material produced by Quaker meetings and individuals. She concludes that liberal Quaker theology possesses a core claim: the belief that direct, unmediated contact with the Divine is possible.

Author : Rhiannon Grant
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781789045055

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Quaker Quicks - Hearing the Light by Rhiannon Grant Pdf

Quaker Quicks - Hearing the Light begins with the foundations of Quaker theology, which is based in the Quaker method of unprogrammed, silent worship. This act of gathering as a community to wait and listen to God is at the heart of Quakerism and essential to understanding Quaker theology, which is embedded in the practice as well as explained by it. Rhiannon Grant shows how Central Quaker theological claims, such as that everyone has that of God within them, that God offers support and guidance to all who choose to listen, and that Quakers as a community are led by God to treat everyone equally, resist war, and live simply, can be understood through a consideration of this distinctive worship practice. Rhiannon Grant also explores what it means to say that this form of theology is liberal - although many Quakers are politically liberal, they have also been called "conservative radicals" (Kenneth Boulding), and the liberalism involved is not mainly political but an attitude towards diversity of thought, opinion, and especially religious belief. While united by the practice of unprogrammed worship, Quakers have no written creed and no specific beliefs are required of members. Instead, there is a prevailing attitude of continued searching, an acceptance that new evidence may appear, and a willingness to learn from others, including members of other faith communities. At a time of great religious and political division, this radical approach to faith and learning that Grant sheds light upon, has never been more prescient.

Author : Rachel Muers
Publisher : SCM Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780334046684

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Testimony by Rachel Muers Pdf

This book brings Quaker thought on theological ethics into constructive dialogue with Christian tradition while engaging with key contemporary ethical debates and with wider questions about the public role of church-communities in a post-secular context. The focus for the discussion is the distinctive Quaker concept and practice of ‘testimony’ – understood as a sustained pattern of action and life within and by the community and the individuals within it, in communicative and transformative relation to its context, and located in everyday life. In the first section, Rachel Muers presents a constructive theological account of testimony, drawing on historical and contemporary Quaker sources, that makes explicit its roots in Johannine Christology and pneumatology, as well as its connections with other Quaker “distinctives” such as unprogrammed worship and non-creedalism. She focuses in particular on the character of testimonies as sustained refusals of specific practices and structures, and on the way in which this sustained opposition gives rise to new attitudes and forms of life. Articulating the ongoing relevance of this approach for theology, Rachel Muers engages with the “ethics of witness” in contemporary Protestant theology and with a longer tradition of thought (and debates) about the significance of Christian ascesis. In the second section, she develops this general account through a series of case studies in Quaker testimony, written and practised. She uses each one to explore aspects of the meaning of, and need for, shared and individual testimony.

Author : Margery Post Abbott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0970041047

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To Be Broken and Tender: A Quaker Theology for Today by Margery Post Abbott Pdf

In To Be Tender and Broken, Margery Abbott weaves together a brave and beautiful personal narrative with Quaker history and theological reflection in response to questions and struggles about belief, language, social issues and other deeply-felt concerns that unsettle and divide our meetings and the wider Religious Society of Friends. Research underpins each chapter with a rich and wide range of classic and contemporary Quaker writers; her analysis is both original and evocative. She asks how, for example, do Friends answer that of God in light of the heinous acts that daily erupt in our world? What strength might a liberal Friend draw from the experience and meaning of the cross to make sense of our lives? Abbott shows us what is possible when we are willing to enter conversation without expectations about where our conversations might lead. Our willingness to listen, to risk being tender and broken, allows the Light within to move us to places we could not have imagined.This is a book Friends of all persuasions have been waiting for.-Barbarajene Williams, elder for the Way of Ministry program

Author : Pink Dandelion
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521841115

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An Introduction to Quakerism by Pink Dandelion Pdf

An introduction to Quaker history, theology and practice that addresses the diversity of Quakerism today.

Author : David Gee
Publisher : Darton Longman and Todd
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1913657035

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Hope's Work by David Gee Pdf

Hope is a determination to live for what is worth living for today, whatever tomorrow may bring. In the bleakest of times hope may seem beyond our grasp, but David Gee's stirring book helps us to see where we might find it, step-by-step, moment-by-moment, in ourselves, in those alongside us, and in the world around us. Hope's Work is written to re-fresh and re-engage people who struggle to keep faith with hope in an age of violence and crisis, and is essential reading for our times. Drawing on stories of hope and resistance from past and present, this short, beautifully-designed book goes in search of what is worth living and working for, even as the future becomes harder to face.

Author : Carole Dale Spencer
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781556358098

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Holiness: The Soul of Quakerism by Carole Dale Spencer Pdf

No single word conjures up religion, spirituality, or the sacred more than holiness. Yet its meaning in Christian theology, and application in Christian practice, has been greatly misunderstood. Few Quakers today of any persuasion would recognize the mystical depth of meaning the concept had for Quakers down through the centuries. Holiness: The Soul of Quakerism recovers the essential place of holiness theology in three centuries of Quaker history. It explores how Quaker spirituality was shaped in its inception by the experience of union with God, otherwise known in the Christian tradition as perfection, and examines selected figures from Quaker history who represent different emphases of holiness in the context of their time and culture.

Author : Pink Dandelion
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Christian sociology
ISBN : IND:30000050293723

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A Sociological Analysis of the Theology of Quakers by Pink Dandelion Pdf

This text represents a major sociological investigation into present day Quakerism in Britain. Its main focus is how belief has become individuated within the group and the consequences of this postmodern condition. It is argued that Quakers in Britain have become post-Christian, and that unity and cohesion are provided by adherence to a behavioural creed, that a liberal belief culture operates alongside a conservative and confromist culture. The relationship between these two aspects of the Quaker double-culture is explored, as is the way aspects of the behavioural creed, especially the sacralization of silence, have accommodated and promoted a paradigmatic shift in the nature of Quaker theology in the last 30 years, a silent revolution. The study examines alternative ways in which membership of a group can be constructed, how apparently contradictory sets of values can be accommodated within a single culture, how liberalism can be both promoted and constrained simultaneously and how organizational change can occur without any explicit or common agreement over the nature of change.

Author : Stephen W. Angell,Pink Dandelion
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191667374

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The Oxford Handbook of Quaker Studies by Stephen W. Angell,Pink Dandelion Pdf

Quakerism began in England in the 1650s. George Fox, credited as leading the movement, had an experience of 1647 in which he felt he could hear Christ directly and inwardly without the mediation of text or minister. Convinced of the authenticity of this experience and its universal application, Fox preached a spirituality in which potentially all were ministers, all part of a priesthood of believers, a church levelled before the leadership of God. Quakers are a fascinating religious group both in their original 'peculiarity' and in the variety of reinterpretations of the faith since. The way they have interacted with wider society is a basic but often unknown part of British and American history. This handbook charts their history and the history of their expression as a religious community. This volume provides an indispensable reference work for the study of Quakerism. It is global in its perspectives and interdisciplinary in its approach whilst offering the reader a clear narrative through the academic debates. In addition to an in-depth survey of historical readings of Quakerism, the handbook provides a treatment of the group's key theological premises and its links with wider Christian thinking. Quakerism's distinctive ecclesiastical forms and practices are analysed, and its social, economic, political, and ethical outcomes examined. Each of the 37 chapters considers broader religious, social, and cultural contexts and provides suggestions for further reading and the volume concludes with an extensive bibliography to aid further research.

Author : Martin Davie
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019342372

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British Quaker Theology Since 1895 by Martin Davie Pdf