Quakers Ecology And The Light

Author : Cherice Bock
Publisher : Brill
ISBN 13 : 9789004535916
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quakers, Ecology, and the Light written by Cherice Bock and published by Brill. This book was released on 2023-05-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By expanding the metaphor of light within the Christian and Quaker traditions to include light's role in our planet's ecosystems, this project develops an ecotheology of light. The authors connect the Inward Light to interdependence theologies and implications for Friends testimonies.

Author : Cherice Bock
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004535926
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quakers, Ecology, and the Light written by Cherice Bock and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-05-25 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the community of life on this planet experiences the anthropogenic climate crisis, what tools from faith traditions can help us meet the coming challenges? By expanding the metaphor of light within the Christian and Quaker traditions to include light’s role in ecosystems, this project develops an ecotheology of light that aims to answer this question. Cherice Bock and Christy Randazzo draw on their contexts in the Religious Society of Friends, placing the Quaker Inward Light in dialogue with the Bible, and light in Eastern Orthodox, ecological, and interdependence theologies. The Quaker ecotheology of light developed argues that Light is a vitally important and mutually translatable metaphor providing a common language that can aid humanity, reinterpreting traditions to meet this moment with spiritual grounding to transition to a just and sustainable future for the Earth, our common home. Bock and Randazzo connect this ecotheology of light with implications for Friends testimonies.

Author : Cherice Bock
Publisher : Barclay Press
ISBN 13 : 9781594980343
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Quaker Ecology written by Cherice Bock and published by Barclay Press. This book was released on 2022-12-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In our best moments, Friends have been in the middle of the action around the social justice issues of each time period, discerning to the best of their abilities the direction the Inward Light leads and speaking truth to power. In our own time, climate justice can no longer be ignored if we want to have a healthy planet to live on and if we want to participate in the heart of the justice movements of the twenty-first century. To work on climate justice requires Quakers in the United States to revisit the practices and history of the Religious Society of Friends, recognizing the ways we have been complicit in unjust land acquisition, natural resource depletion, the intersecting injustices surrounding environmental racism, classism, and gender disparities, and the impacts of globalization. This book offers a series of meditations on the Quaker ecology, both internally in our denomination as well as in our connections to the world around us. It forms an invitation to participate in an Eco-Reformation, altering the trajectory of our Society through re-membering our history and reimagining our future as participants in the community of all life.

Author : Janet Parker
Publisher : Barclay Press
ISBN 13 : 9781594980831
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Grounded Faith written by Janet Parker and published by Barclay Press. This book was released on 2022-01-15 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grapple with Lenten themes as they relate to our relationship with Earth, with Indigenous worldviews, and with the beauty and vulnerability of this land and our place in it.

Author : Steve Chase
Publisher : Quakerpress of Fgc
ISBN 13 : 9781937768027
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letters to a Fellow Seeker written by Steve Chase and published by Quakerpress of Fgc. This book was released on 2012 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In seven letters to a fictional correspondent, Steve Chase describes his spiritual journey among Quakers. The writer introduces the Quaker way to a newcomer in language that is personal and gentle, while offering powerful inspiration through stories.

Author : Madeleine Pennington
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192648411
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quakers, Christ, and the Enlightenment written by Madeleine Pennington and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Quakers were by far the most successful of the radical religious groups to emerge from the turbulence of the mid-seventeenth century—and their survival into the present day was largely facilitated by the transformation of the movement during its first fifty years. What began as a loose network of charismatic travelling preachers was, by the start of the eighteenth century, a well-organised and international religious machine. This shift is usually explained in terms of a desire to avoid persecution, but Quakers, Christ, and the Enlightenment argues instead for the importance of theological factors as the major impetus for change. In the first sustained account of the theological changes guiding the development of seventeenth-century Quakerism, Madeleine Pennington explores the Quakers' positive intellectual engagement with those outside the movement to offer a significant reassessment of the causal factors determining the development of early Quakerism. Considering the Quakers' engagement with such luminaries as Baruch Spinoza, Henry More, John Locke, and John Norris, Pennington unveils the Quakers' concerted attempts to bolster their theological reputation through the refinement of their central belief in the 'inward Christ', or 'the Light within'. In doing so, she further challenges stereotypes of early modern radicalism as anti-intellectual and ill-educated. Rather, the theological concerns of the Quakers and their interlocutors point to a crisis of Christology weaving through the intellectual milieu of the seventeenth century, which has long been under-estimated as significant fuel for the emerging Enlightenment.

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 : Philip Clayton
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1451416040
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adventures in the Spirit written by Philip Clayton and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Adventures in the Spirit, respected and influential theologian Philip Clayton argues that two major intellectual movements of our day-panentheism and emergence-are converging and that together they offer exciting new vistas for theological reflection. On the one hand, over the last decades many theologians have been re-conceiving the God-world relation panentheistically, affirming a radical indwelling of God within the world and the world within God. On the other hand, scientists have begun to abandon the reductionist ideology that characterized much of the modern period, with a new emphasis on emergence. Their study of how new, novel structures and entities arise throughout the evolutionary process yields a much more open-ended, holistic vision of reality, Clayton argues.

Author : Eleanor Nesbitt
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1803413247
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quaker Quicks: Open to New Light: Quakers and Other Faiths written by Eleanor Nesbitt and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-24 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Open to New Light is not only for readers interested in exploring Quaker history and principles but also for anyone interested in different faiths and the relationships between them. The topics covered include Quakers' historic interfaith encounters, as well as more recent engagements with Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus and Jains, Sikhs, Baha'is, followers of Indigenous religions and Humanists.

Author : Christy Randazzo
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004425063
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberal Quaker Reconciliation Theology: A Constructive Approach written by Christy Randazzo and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-02-17 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.