The liturgies of Quakerism /
The earliest Quakers were convinced that they were living as the vanguard of an inward second coming of Christ. This volume considers the nature of Quaker liturgy and how it has changed since then, particularly in the liberal or unprogrammed tradition of Quaker worship.
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| Language: | English |
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Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
2005.
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| Series: | Liturgy, worship, and society
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Table of Contents:
- List of figures
- Foreword / Roger Homan
- Introduction
- 1. The end of time and the beginning of Quakerism
- 2. The liturgy of silence
- 3. In the world but not of it
- 4. Different confessions, different liturgies
- 5. Present-day practice
- 6. The means to experience
- 7. Reading liberal silence : new intimacies, and the end of time
- Bibliography
- Index.