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A Man That Looks on Glass: Standing Up for God in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)

By Derek Guiton

Paperback: 284 pages
Publisher: FeedaRead.com (October 13, 2015)
Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 14.9 ounces

Price: $23.95

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Synopsis

The Quaker movement in Britain is beset with problems – growing secularisation, incompatible belief systems, ideology as a substitute for faith. Add to these the emergence of theologically-based ‘special interest’ groups with their own sectarian agendas and campaigning methods and we have a genuine existential crisis on our hands. A Man That Looks on Glass (the title is from a poem by a seventeenth century poet) analyses and questions the thinking that has led to this situation. It challenges the supposed inevitability of the ‘Godless’ strand in British Quakerism and calls for a renewed emphasis on transcendence. It ends with a positive look at a Quaker mystical theism based on individual and corporate religious experience.