"Quaker Theology" Journal #2 - Now Online
CHUCKFAGER
I am very pleased to announce that the second issue of "Quaker Theology," the
first and only Quaker theological journal available online, has now been
posted. You can find it at:
Here are the contents for this second issue:
Reflecting Theologically from the Gathered Meeting: The Nature and Origin of
Quaker Theology, by R. Melvin Keiser.
Mel Keiser is Professor of Religious Studies at Guilford College. In this
essay he considers how Quaker theology can be both rooted in worship and take
account of some modern philosophical perspectives.
George Fox Among the Mystics, by George H. Tavard.
Tavard, a Catholic priest, is one of the most distinguished ecumenical
thinkers of our time. Here he considers the founder of Friends in relation to
other Christian mystics, both in and out of the Catholic fold.
First Thoughts on Sixteenth Century Spanish Mysticism
and the First Quakers: Communion with The Light in Early Modernism,
By Alvin Joaquín Figueroa
Figueroa, a Hispanic Friend, questions the standard comparison of early Quaker
spirituality with northern European influences, and opens the topic of possible
affinities with Catholic mysticism of the Spanish church.
A Review: Among Friends, A Consultation with Friends about the Condition of
Quakers in the US Today. An Earlham School of Religion Report,
by Chuck Fager
As this report is circulated among Friends at large, Fager points up some of
its limitations and calls for caution in the use and interpretation of the data
it presents.
An Exchange: Quaker theology Without God? By Edward James and George Amoss,
Jr.
James responds to an Amoss's essay on Quaker atheism in our first issue, and
Amoss replies.
Again, Quaker Theology is available in both a print edition and online. We
hope your meeting library will want a subscription to the print edition, but in
the meantime, you can read it now, without charge.
Chuck Fager
Editor, Quaker Theology