Modern Liberal Quaker Theology and Controversy

Charting the Course of 20th Century Liberal Quaker Theology. I call this recent period of progressive Quaker history the Age of Amnesia, an unarticulated sense that Quakerism was effectively invented just a few weeks before thee and me started attending meeting.

Two Addresses from the Founding of the major liberal Quaker association of the modern era. These stirring speeches show the dynamic spirit that launched this movement.

A critical examination of the current efforts to re-establish the system of “recorded ministers” among liberal unprogrammed Quaker groups.

An Examination of Contemporary Quaker Identity, by Chuck Fager.

An introduction to the lost “Rosetta Stone” of 20th Century liberal Quaker religious thought — Henry Cadbury’s discovery and reconstruction of George Fox’s suppressed Book of Miracles.

a paper delivered at a Swarthmore College Symposium on the Legacy of George Fox, October 2002

The “Richmond Declaration of Faith” has been used by many groups (and strongly rejected by many others) as the equivalent of a formal creed since it was produced in 1887. This essay explains why one liberal Friend can’t accept it.

A fine essay by one of today’s most thoughtful and perceptive Quaker writers, on ways to bridge, or at least encompass, the divergent streams of contemporary Quakerism. From his book of essays and addresses, Words in Time.

A theist Friend’s Appreciation of Quaker Non-theism

A review of Conservative Quakerism on the Rise