The Quakers, Past and Present

The Quakers appeared about a hundred years after the decentralization of authority in theological science. The Reformers' dream of a remade church had ended in a Europe where, o...

When Fox came back to the world from his lonely wanderings, he had no thought of setting up a church in opposition to, or in any sort of competition with, existing churches. His...

At the heart of the Quaker church is "meeting"--the silent Quaker meeting so long a source of misunderstanding to those outside the body, so clearly illuminated now for all who...

But the swing-back for the imitative mass to the easily grasped dogma of an infallible Scripture did not take place at once. It appears as a clearly accomplished fact at the tim...

The American colonies seemed to the early leaders of the Quaker movement to offer at once a field for the free development of their faith and a base whence they might spread to...

Watching pilgrims who pass one by one along the mystic way, we see both women and men. Teresa, Catharine, Elizabeth, Mechthild, no less than Francis, Tauler, Boehme, stand as hi...

The counter-agitation[24] brought forth in England by the American Hicksite movement, ended, after prolonged discussion and stress, in a decisive readjustment of the Society of...