The Living Fountain: Remembrances of Quaker Christianity

The Living Fountain: Remembrances of Quaker Christianity

by Benjamin Wood
The Living Fountain: Remembrances of Quaker Christianity

The Living Fountain: Remembrances of Quaker Christianity

by Benjamin Wood

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Overview

In the second decade of the twenty-first century, Quakers are increasingly divided over matters of theology, religious belonging, and the status of Friends’ Christian past. Recent controversies over Theism, Non-Theism and Universalism have highlighted deep-rooted transformations of Quaker self-understanding. In contrast to earlier decades, many contemporary Quakers hanker after an intensely inclusive community, unhampered by the particulars of Christian theology. Many British Friends no-longer see the Quaker movement as an expression of the Gospel nor a manifestation of the Universal Church. What might Friends be missing by re-imagining Quakerism in these resolutely post-Christian terms? Author Benjamin Wood argues that, far from limiting the bounds of Quaker identity, a selective return to Quakerism’s seventeenth-century roots can restore to modern Liberal Friends a shared story capable of deepening their spiritual life and worship-practice. Based neither on doctrinal agreement nor inflexible religious borders, the Quaker narrative recovered in The Living Fountain: Remembrances of Quaker Christianity is drawn together by sacred experiments in mutual love and enduring hope. Through a series of extended reflections on God, Jesus, and the language of salvation, Wood seeks to uncover a dynamic faith ncommitted to universal healing, reconciliation, and the crossing of religious and cultural boundaries. At the centre of this retrieval is the insistence that the God revealed in Quaker worship cherishes our differences and delights in our diversity.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781803412337
Publisher: Collective Ink
Publication date: 06/01/2023
Pages: 208
Product dimensions: 5.69(w) x 8.28(h) x 0.47(d)

About the Author

Ben Wood is an Associate Tutor at Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre and a visiting researcher at the Centre of Religion and Public at the University of Leeds. He teaches undergraduate and postgraduate students in diverse areas of study including Systematic Theology, Christian ethics, and the history of Western Philosophy. He lives in Leeds, UK.
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