Pop Quiz on Quaker Theology/History
The following passage appeared in a Discipline published by a Yearly Meeting in 1918:
a) Gurneyite/Orthodox?
b) Evangelical?
c) Wilburite/Conservative?
d) Hicksite/Liberal?
Hint: Choose what most Friends today would consider the least likely answer. If you find that answer counter-intuitive, feel free to say why. Remember that much of what many Friends "know" about Quaker history isn't true.
I'll provide the answer in a couple of days or after a few answers are ventured by readers - whichever comes first.
- - Rich Accetta-Evans
"If anyone in membership with us...shall deny the divinity of Christ, the immediate revelation of the Holy Spirit, or the inspiration of the Scriptures, he ought to be tenderly treated with for his instruction, and the convincement of his understanding, that he may experience repentance and forgiveness."Question: Was this Yearly Meeting
a) Gurneyite/Orthodox?
b) Evangelical?
c) Wilburite/Conservative?
d) Hicksite/Liberal?
Hint: Choose what most Friends today would consider the least likely answer. If you find that answer counter-intuitive, feel free to say why. Remember that much of what many Friends "know" about Quaker history isn't true.
I'll provide the answer in a couple of days or after a few answers are ventured by readers - whichever comes first.
- - Rich Accetta-Evans
posted by Rich in Brooklyn at Thursday, March 10, 2005
2 Comments:
As for me, what Friends know, they should know mostly in the heart. Books describe the light, but the heart knows the light.
Look first within...
when board...
read a book.
: )
lor
The hint tells us that it should be "Liberal/Hicksite" although I would love to have more information, on, say, what would happen if the Friend in question refuse all the eldering and insist on his opinions. This opening passage reads terribly like the 1806 Discipline of PYM.
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