Quakerism: The Basics (review)
Quakerism: The Basics
by Margery Post Abbott and Carl Abbott
reviewed by Tom Head
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Quakerism: The Basics
by Margery Post Abbott and Carl Abbott
reviewed by Tom Head
As Kenneth Boulding summarized in 1979, certain “Quaker distinctives” have held steady from the beginning: 1) faith in the presence of a universal call to perfectibility in all Life, 2) a profound unwillingness to use threat, even for supposedly good ends, 3) a passion for veracity, even in minute particulars of language, and 4) a sense of being upheld by grace, a thing not under human control,
