From Quaker to Upper Canadian
From Quaker to Upper Canadian

Author: Robynne Rogers Healey

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 0773560173

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From Quaker to Upper Canadian is the first scholarly work to examine the transformation of this important religious community from a self-insulated group to integration within Upper Canadian society. Through a careful reconstruction of local community dynamics, Healey argues that the integration of this sect into mainstream society was the result of religious schisms that splintered the community and compelled Friends to seek affinities with other religious groups as well as the effect of cooperation between Quakers and non-Quakers.

Theology from Listening: Finding the Core of Liberal Quaker Theological Thought
Theology from Listening: Finding the Core of Liberal Quaker Theological Thought

Author: Rhiannon Grant

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-04-28

Total Pages: 99

ISBN-13: 9004431551

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In Theology from Listening: Finding the Core of Liberal Quaker Theological Thought, Rhiannon Grant explores the changes and continuities in liberal Quaker theology over the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries in multiple English-speaking Quaker communities around the world. The work involves a close analysis of material produced by Quaker meetings through formal, corporate methods; of material produced by individuals and small groups within Quaker communities; and of writing by individuals and small groups working primarily within academic or ecumenical theological settings. It concludes that although liberal Quaker theology is diverse and flexible, it also possesses a core coherence and can meaningfully be discussed as a single tradition. At the centre of liberal Quaker theology is the belief that direct, unmediated contact with the Divine is possible and results in useful guidance.