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15 - Quakers and Non-theism

from Part IV - Emerging Spiritualities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2018

By
Dan Christy Randazzo
Edited by
Stephen W. Angell  and
Pink Dandelion
Stephen W. Angell
Affiliation:
Earlham School of Religion, Indiana
Pink Dandelion
Affiliation:
University of Birmingham
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Summary

This chapter focuses on non-theist perspectives, including non-theist publications as well as non-theist writings within Universalist publications. This chapter includes: a discussion on ways which non-theists have chosen to define themselves; interpretations of Quaker history and identity; assessments of the priority of reason and Quaker practice as core aspects of both theist and non-theist Quakerism; and a potential outline for a unique a/theology for non-theism, including avenues where non-theist Friends have demonstrated efforts to bridge the theist/non-theist divide, and potential areas of future development in non-theist thought.
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The Cambridge Companion to Quakerism , pp. 274 - 289
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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Suggested Further Reading

Amoss, George. The Postmodern Quaker, https://postmodernquaker.wordpress.com/Google Scholar
Boulton, David (ed.). (2006). Godless for God’s Sake: Nontheism in Contemporary Quakerism, Dent: Dales Historical Monographs.Google Scholar
Cresson, O. (2014). Quaker and Naturalist Too, Iowa City: Morning Walk Press.Google Scholar
Website of Nontheist Friends, www.nontheistfriends.org/Google Scholar

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