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Seeds of Silence: Essays in Quaker Spirituality and Philosophical Theology

Seeds of Silence: Essays in Quaker Spirituality and Philosophical Theology

by R. Melvin Keiser
Seeds of Silence: Essays in Quaker Spirituality and Philosophical Theology
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Seeds of Silence: Essays in Quaker Spirituality and Philosophical Theology

Seeds of Silence: Essays in Quaker Spirituality and Philosophical Theology

by R. Melvin Keiser

Overview

'This book is destined to be a classic of Quaker theology and spirituality. A deep dive into the roots, coherence, and originality of Quaker living, this text is a stunning articulation of what and how Quakers believe. Keiser draws on recent philosophers and early Quaker authors to articulate the contemporary vitality of Quaker insights regarding issues such as equality, interrelation, and mending creation. However, the brilliance of the book is not ultimately educational but invitational. Every page emerges from the depths of Keiser’s own mature spirituality, shaped by a lifetime of Quaker commitment, experience, and practice. The reader is carried into a particularly Quaker way of being in the world. Like the works of Kelly or Thurman, the book leaves one both satisfied and longing, comforted and unsettled, encouraged and challenged to live more deeply in this strange and sacred world.' Rev. Dr. Shannon Craigo-Snell, Professor of Theology Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, author of Silence, Love, and Death: Saying Yes to God in the Theology of Karl Rahner

R. Melvin Keiser delves into the depths of Quaker spirituality and their philosophy, showing us that we require silence to unlock our relationship with God. Seeds of Silence: Essays in Quaker Spirituality and Philosophical Theology questions the modern world's addiction to distractions and instant gratification, and leads us toward a semi-forgotten Christian tradition of contemplative thinking.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781789045499
Publisher: Collective Ink
Publication date: 12/01/2021
Pages: 320
Product dimensions: 5.53(w) x 8.64(h) x 0.72(d)

About the Author

R. Melvin Keiser, Professor Emeritus of Religious and Interdisciplinary Studies, Guilford College, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA, now lives in Black Mountain, North Carolina.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

I Silence as Origin 5

Waiting in Silence: The Metaphoric Matrix of Quakerism 8

Inward Light and the New Creation: A Theological Meditation on the Center and Circumference of Quakerism 20

Two Lads in Front of a Fire: A Seventeenth-Century Tale 39

II What Is Quaker Philosophical Theology? 53

A Becoming Quaker: Doing, Speaking, Thinking

Felt Reality in Practical Living and Innovative Thinking: Mary and Isaac Penington's Journey from Puritan Anguish to Quaker Truth 57

"Gathered Inward to the Word": The Way of Word and Silence in Quaker Experience 77

B Quaker Thought: Relational and Emergent in Robert Barclay

Touched and Knit in the Life: Barclay's Relational Theology Beyond Cartesian Dualism 99

The Growing Up of Principles: Otherness in Robert Barclay's Emergent Thinking 127

C The What, How, and Why of Quaker Theology

The Quaker Vision and the Doing of Theology 137

Reflecting Theologically from the Gathered Meeting: The Nature and Origin of Quaker Theology 158

III Quaker Thought as Theopoetic: Christ, History, and Biblical Interpretation 177

Christ in the Mesh of Metaphor 179

Meaning in Historical Existence: Modern and Quaker Perspectives 195

To See Jesus in Holy Land Travails 208

Resurrection for Paul, Mark, and Friends 212

"I Knew Him Not but by Revelation": A Hermeneutics of Inwardness and the Ethics of Same-Sex Love 218

A Theopoetic Concluding

Prolegomena to Any Future Systematic Theology 242

Abbreviations 244

Notes 245

Bibliography 267

Index 277

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