# The Quakers, Past and Present

Author: Richardson, Dorothy M. (Dorothy Miller), 1873-1957

Genre: Category: History - American

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57726

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Quakers%2C+Past+and+Present+Richardson&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

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, over against an alienated parent, four young Protestant communions disputed together as to the doctrinal interpretation of the scriptures. Within these communions the goal towards which the breaking away from the Roman centre had been an unconscious step was already well in view. It was obvious that the separated churches were helpless against the demands arising in their midst for the right of individual interpretation where they themselves drew such widely differing conclusions. The Bible, abroad amongst the peopl...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-quakers-past-and-present-57726/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-quakers-past-and-present-57726/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-quakers-past-and-present-57726/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-quakers-past-and-present-57726/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-quakers-past-and-present-57726/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-quakers-past-and-present-57726/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-quakers-past-and-present-57726/chapters/4/index.md)