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This book brings Quaker thought on theological ethics into constructive dialogue with Christian tradition while engaging with key contemporary ethical debates and with wider questions about the public role of church-communities in a post/secular context. The focus for the discussion is the distinctive Quaker concept and practice of 'testimony' - understood as a sustained pattern of action and life within and by the community and the individuals within it, in communicative and transformative relation to its context, and located in everyday life. In the first section, I present a constructive theological account of testimony, drawing on historical and contemporary Quaker sources, that makes explicit its roots in Johannine Christology and pneumatology, as well as its connections with other Quaker "distinctives" such as unprogrammed worship and non-creedalism. I focus in particular on the character of testimonies as sustained refusals of specific practices and structures, and to the way in which this sustained opposition gives rise to new attitudes and forms of life.
Articulating the ongoing relevance of this approach for theology, I engage in particular with the "ethics of witness" in contemporary Protestant theology and with a longer tradition of thought (and debates) about the significance of Christian ascesis. In the second section, I develop this general account through a series of case studies in Quaker testimony, written and practised. I use each one to explore aspects of the meaning of, and need for, shared and individual testimony.
Author
Rachel Muers
Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
SCM Press
Published
March 2015
Weight
277g
Page Count
192
Dimensions
14 x 21.6 x 1.3 cm
ISBN
9780334046684
ISBN-10
0334046688
Eden Code
4076581
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Author/Creator: Rachel Muers
ISBN: 9780334046684
Publisher: SCM Press
Release Date: March 2015
Weight: 277g
Dimensions: 14 x 21.6 x 1.3 cm
Eden Code: 4076581