“Present-day Quakerism owes a special debt to those interpreters who do justice to more than one of its multiple strands, the mystical, the evangelical, the rational and the social….It would be a pity if the natural variety in Quakerism were artificially restrained. Even unconsciously we are subject to powerful tendencies to conform to a single standard in religion as well as in other ideologies and practices. If the role of Quakerism among the denominations is precisely one of enriching the variety and challenging their standards of uniformity, we ought by the same token to welcome variety within our own small body and ought to object to the impoverishing effect of attempting to get ourselves and our fellow Quakers into one mould.”
Henry Joel Cadbury
More at http://www.nontheistfriends.org/article/henry-joel-cadbury-no-assurance-of-god-or-immortality-with-added-notes/
Henry Joel Cadbury
More at http://www.nontheistfriends.org/article/henry-joel-cadbury-no-assurance-of-god-or-immortality-with-added-notes/
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