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Quaker Quicks - Quaker Shaped Christianity: How the Jesus Story and the Quaker Way Fit Together

Quaker Quicks - Quaker Shaped Christianity: How the Jesus Story and the Quaker Way Fit Together

by Mark Russ
Quaker Quicks - Quaker Shaped Christianity: How the Jesus Story and the Quaker Way Fit Together

Quaker Quicks - Quaker Shaped Christianity: How the Jesus Story and the Quaker Way Fit Together

by Mark Russ

Overview

'What is Quakerism?' can be a difficult question to answer, especially when Quakers today struggle to find a shared religious language. In this book, Mark Russ answers this question from a personal perspective, telling his story of trying to make sense of Jesus within the Quaker community. Through this theological wrestling emerges a 'Quaker Shaped Christianity' that is contemporary, open and rooted in tradition. In reflecting on how to approach the Bible, the challenges of Universalism, and the key events of the Jesus story, this book offers a creative, inspiring and readable theology for everyone who has wondered how Christianity and Quakerism fit together.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781803410548
Publisher: Collective Ink
Publication date: 12/01/2022
Pages: 104
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.10(d)

About the Author

Mark Russ is a writer, theologian and teacher, who works for Woodbrooke, the international Quaker learning and research organisation. He lives in Birmingham, England.

Table of Contents

Introduction: My Quaker-shaped Christianity 1

About me 2

About this book 5

Chapter 1 The Jesus Story - Approaching the Bible 10

Where is the "real" Jesus? 11

There are no "added extras" 13

Inhabiting the Jesus story 15

Chapter 2 Why Only One Story? - Christianity and Universalism 20

The attraction of universalism 21

The problems with universalism 22

Jesus, my place to stand and guiding star 24

Chapter 3 A Christ-shaped Future 32

Apocalyptic dangers 33

Jesus' ministry and the arrival of God's future 35

Quakers and God's arrival 37

Chapter 4 Resurrection 42

Making sense of the Resurrection 43

The Spirit of Freedom today 47

Chapter 5 Crucifixion 52

My problems with the cross

Salvaging sin-talk 54

What the cross says 58

Chapter 6 Planting a Seed 63

Nativity

The seed of Christ within 65

What would Mary do? 69

Note to reader 75

Notes 76

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Bibles & Christianity
Religion
Christianity
Protestantism
Society of Friends (Quakers)

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