# HG changeset patch # User Henry Thompson # Date 1618046599 -3600 # Node ID fdcf456ad810189d39224d1f4c0bb2aa0bd447bc # Parent 58276738029363e79c1f85b7fa12bd757b5f9781 ? diff -r 582767380293 -r fdcf456ad810 SpiritualRoots/notes.txt --- a/SpiritualRoots/notes.txt Sat Apr 10 10:21:49 2021 +0100 +++ b/SpiritualRoots/notes.txt Sat Apr 10 10:23:19 2021 +0100 @@ -134,3 +134,30 @@ "Second Day Morning Meeting" as gatekeeper for public statements. +====== Module Three - Quakers and Bible/Christianity ===== + + "However, with the appearance of the Wesleyan Methodist movement in + the eighteenth century, a Protestant group developed which, while + strongly influenced by Luther, also affirmed the universal + availability of salvation, the possibility of holiness, and the + binding together of piety and social action. It is perhaps no + surprise, therefore, that the Wesleyan tradition has exercised such + a profound influence on global Quakerism during the past two hundred + and fifty years." + +Richmond Declaration of Faith not as intended to separate [us] from +the Liberal Friends, but as a "this far and no further" to separate +them from the rest of the Evangelical movement [per John Punshon in +his book on Friends Churches, per Stuart Masters] + +Note also the in the RDoF, the Great Commission is only identified in +order to argue about exactly what was meant by 'baptising them'... + +Alastair Reid offers: + _The Same, But Different - Ministry and the Quaker Pastor_, Phil Baisley + _On Quakers and Pastors_, Derek Brown + +4.2b + [Elizabeth Bathurst] argued that a loving God would not locate the + source of salvation solely in a text that was vulnerable to + concealment, mistranslation and misinterpretation.