Quakers And Mysticism

Author : Jon R. Kershner
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030216535
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quakers and Mysticism written by Jon R. Kershner and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the nearly 400-year tradition of Quaker engagements with mystical ideas and sources. It provides a fresh assessment of the way tradition and social context can shape a religious community while interplaying with historical and theological antecedents within the tradition. Quaker concepts such as “Meeting,” the “Light,” and embodied spirituality, have led Friends to develop an interior spirituality that intersects with extra-Quaker sources, such as those found in Jakob Boehme, Abū Bakr ibn Tufayl, the Continental Quietists, Kabbalah, Buddhist thought, and Luyia indigenous religion. Through time and across cultures, these and other conversations have shaped Quaker self-understanding and, so, expanded previous models of how religious ideas take root within a tradition. The thinkers engaged in this globally-focused, interdisciplinary volume include George Fox, James Nayler, Robert Barclay, Elizabeth Ashbridge, John Woolman, Hannah Whitall Smith, Rufus Jones, Inazo Nitobe, Howard Thurman, and Gideon W. H. Mweresa, among others.

Author : Michael Birkel
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004373748
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quakers Reading Mystics written by Michael Birkel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the reception of mystical texts among Quakers, looking at Robert Barclay and John Cassian, Sarah L. Grubb and Jeanne Guyon, Caroline Stephen and Johannes Tauler, Rufus Jones and Jacob Boehme, and Teresina Havens and Buddhist texts.

Author : Rex Ambler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780875744636
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mind the Oneness written by Rex Ambler and published by . This book was released on 2020-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cho-Nyon Kim
Publisher : Interactive Publications
ISBN 13 : 1921869682
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Encounter Between Quaker Mysticism and Taoism in Everyday Life written by Cho-Nyon Kim and published by Interactive Publications. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lecture, Cho-Nyon Kim explores his spiritual journey in the Korean religious environment, in which Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism and Christianity have all influenced cultural practices and been integrated into daily life. He is inspired by the life and thoughts of Ham Sok Hon, a prominent Korean peace activist and Quaker. He asks how we can live a simple life in a complex world. He wants to focus on how we can create a peaceful society in the face of nationalism and self-centredness. Quakerism has similarities to Taoism in its mysticism and its sense of waiting in a meditative way. Cho-Nyon Kim concludes that he must lead his life ‘in the manner of those who always seek truth with an open mind’. p.p1 {margin: 5.7px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 12.0px; font: 31.0px 'Adobe Caslon Pro'} p.p2 {margin: 5.7px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 12.0px; font: 9.5px 'Adobe Caslon Pro'} p.p3 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 17.0px; line-height: 12.0px; font: 9.5px 'Adobe Caslon Pro'}

Author : Thomas D. Hamm
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231123620
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quakers in America written by Thomas D. Hamm and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Quakers in America is a multifaceted history of the Religious Society of Friends and a fascinating study of its culture and controversies today. Lively vignettes of Conservative, Evangelical, Friends General Conference, and Friends United meetings illuminate basic Quaker theology and reflect the group's diversity while also highlighting the fundamental unity within the religion. Quaker culture encompasses a rich tradition of practice even as believers continue to debate whether Quakerism is necessarily Christian, where religious authority should reside, how one transmits faith to children, and how gender and sexuality shape religious belief and behavior. Praised for its rich insight and wide-ranging perspective, The Quakers in America is a penetrating account of an influential, vibrant, and often misunderstood religious sect. Known best for their long-standing commitment to social activism, pacifism, fair treatment for Native Americans, and equality for women, the Quakers have influenced American thought and society far out of proportion to their relatively small numbers. Whether in the foreign policy arena (the American Friends Service Committee), in education (the Friends schools), or in the arts (prominent Quakers profiled in this book include James Turrell, Bonnie Raitt, and James Michener), Quakers have left a lasting imprint on American life. This multifaceted book is a concise history of the Religious Society of Friends; an introduction to its beliefs and practices; and a vivid picture of the culture and controversies of the Friends today. The book opens with lively vignettes of Conservative, Evangelical, Friends General Conference, and Friends United meetings that illuminate basic Quaker concepts and theology and reflect the group's diversity in the wake of the sectarian splintering of the nineteenth century. Yet the book also examines commonalities among American Friends that demonstrate a fundamental unity within the religion: their commitments to worship, the ministry of all believers, decision making based on seeking spiritual consensus rather than voting, a simple lifestyle, and education. Thomas Hamm shows that Quaker culture encompasses a rich tradition of practice even as believers continue to debate a number of central questions: Is Quakerism necessarily Christian? Where should religious authority reside? Is the self sacred? How does one transmit faith to children? How do gender and sexuality shape religious belief and behavior? Hamm's analysis of these debates reveals a vital religion that prizes both unity and diversity.

Author : John Macort
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Meditation, Prayer, God In All written by John Macort and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-13 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contents of this book were taken from a larger, previous publication by John Macort entitled "A Seeker's Theology," "Christianity Reinterpreted as Mysticism." Having been raised an Episcopalian with strong Quaker influences from family and a Quaker school and college, the author served as an Episcopal priest for four decades. He also taught religion, theology, and philosophy at a Roman Catholic university and other colleges. After his retirement, he returned to his Liberal Quaker roots. He renounced Trinitarian doctrines, creeds and beliefs. Now a panentheist, he bases is faith on mystical experiences. He calls himself a rebellious Episcopalian, a unitarian, universalist, Liberal Quaker, seeker. In other words, a Christian heretic. As a non-theist, he contends that God is not a divine person or supreme being off in the heavens. Panentheism expresses God as being in every aspect of existence. Quakers believe that there is that of God in every person. The author experiences God as the impersonal energy that makes every thing that exists what it is. God is the source of all energy and love. How then, does one pray to impersonal, divine Spirit or Energy? Through mystical meditation, everyone can receive inspiration and direct revelations from God. When we transmit or send our divine energy from within ourselves directly to other persons, that is prayer.

Author : Harold D. Weaver
Publisher : Quaker Press
ISBN 13 : 9781888305883
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Fire written by Harold D. Weaver and published by Quaker Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of writings of African American Quakers from colonial times through the 20th century on topics of spirituality, religion, social justice and human rights.

Author : Helen Holt
Publisher : Studies in Theology and Religi
ISBN 13 : 9789004469457
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mysticism and the Inner Light in the Thought of Rufus Jones, Quaker written by Helen Holt and published by Studies in Theology and Religi. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rufus Jones' promotion of mysticism and his novel formulation of the Inner Light, which saw God as an inherent part of human nature, were sweepingly influential within liberal Quakerism in the early 20th century and have had long-lasting effects. His ideas, however, have never been examined critically. In Mysticism and the Inner Light , Helen Holt provides the first analysis of Jones' thought, showing how he attempted to synthesize his own experience with aspects of the psychology of William James, the idealism of Josiah Royce, and liberal Christianity. She finds that because Jones presented his ideas informally, he is sometimes misinterpreted, especially regarding his views on Christ and humanism. The book draws on Jones' extensive corpus and on unpublished archived letters.

Author : Rhiannon Grant
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789044065
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quaker Quicks - Quakers Do What! Why? written by Rhiannon Grant and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Structured around questions which non-Quakers often ask, this book explores Quaker practices, explaining them in the context of Quaker theology and present-day diversity. It describes how Quakers make decisions and why they have preferred this method, as well as looking at the Quaker rejection of common Christian practices like baptism. Each short chapter gives an answer, considers why that is so, describes some of the diversity within Quaker groups, and points to other resources which could be used to find out more.

Author : Rufus Matthew Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Studies in Mystical Religion written by Rufus Matthew Jones and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: