Quaker Theology

Issue # 1 – Fall 1999

Volume One
Editor: Chuck Fager
ISSN 1526-7490

  • Some Quaker Reflections on the Kosovo War

    By Chuck Fager I. A Letter from Lincoln Reflecting on the Kosovo war as a Quaker, a recent joke came to mind: Question: What did one paradigm say to the other paradigm? Answer: Shift happens. What sorts of shifts does Kosovo confront us with? There are at least five that I have noticed and want…

  • Editor’s Introduction, #1

    In good Quaker fashion, we begin with queries: What is theology, and why should Friends be interested in it? Read More

  • The Making of a Quaker Atheist

    Copyright © George Amoss, Jr., 1999All rights reserved. How did I come to be a Quaker and an atheist? I was raised as neither; my early life was filled with faith in God and a fascination with the Catholic priesthood and “the religious life”–life under vows Read More

  • The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) as a Religious Community

    Ann K. Riggs At the Fourth World Conference in Faith and Order in Montreal, 1963, the Commission presented the influential text, “Scripture, Tradition and Traditions.”2 This text developed an understanding of Christian Scripture as the creation of Read More

  • Puritanism, Spiritualism, and Quakerism:

    AN HISTORIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY Melvin B. Endy, Jr. The problems posed by the attempt to define Puritanism have driven some scholars to substituting description for definition and others to the use of the term as an umbrella for the religious experience shared by groups as disparate as mildly dissatisfied Read More

  • About the Contributors, #1

    George Amoss, Jr. is a member of Homewood Meeting in Baltimore. He edits the Journal of the Quaker Universalist Fellowship, and established the Quaker Electronic Archive and Meeting place website, at: http://www.qis.net/~daruma/index.html Melvin Endy, who is currently Read More