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R. Melvin Keiser is the author of Roots of Relational Ethics: Responsibility in Origin and Maturity in H. Richard Niebuhr, as well as numerous essays on Quaker theology and spirituality. A member of Swannanoa Valley Friends Meeting, he lives in Black Mountain, North Carolina, and has been mehr anzeigen co-director with his wife, Beth Keiser, of the Quaker-based Common Light Meetingplace in the Asheville, North Carolina area. weniger anzeigen
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Inward light and the new creation : a theological meditation upon the center and circumference of Quakerism (1991) 42 Exemplare
Roots of Relational Ethics: Responsibility in Origin and Maturity in H. Richard Niebuhr (1996) 7 Exemplare
Recovering the Personal: Religious Language and the Post-Critical Quest of H. Richard Niebuhr (1988) 3 Exemplare
The Quaker Vision and the Doing of Theology 1 Exemplar
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Inward Light and the New Creation von R. Melvin Keiser
A theological meditation on the spirituality of George Fox’s visionary journey back into Paradise and Margaret Fell’s argument for women’s equality in church leadership. (From Pendle Hill website)
A theological meditation on the spirituality of George Fox’s visionary journey back into Paradise and Margaret Fell’s argument for women’s equality in church leadership.
This pamphlet might initially put off readers with abstruse language ("we are brought into truth with the original matrix of our being"), but the persevering reader will be rewarded with a sophisticated, deep, ultimately clear and compelling explanation of Quaker spirituality, in 22 (small) pages. Here is a much deeper explication than given in the usual introduction to Quakerism.
This pamphlet is both helpful and inspiring. It helps us understand what we are doing in silent meeting for worship; his two paragraphs are better than 90% of the explanations I've read elsewhere. And the explanation of Quaker spirituality and the testimonies clears away misleading expectations that can be real stumbling blocks, points helpfully to the way forward, and inspires us with its promise. This is why we are Quakers.… (mehr)
This pamphlet is both helpful and inspiring. It helps us understand what we are doing in silent meeting for worship; his two paragraphs are better than 90% of the explanations I've read elsewhere. And the explanation of Quaker spirituality and the testimonies clears away misleading expectations that can be real stumbling blocks, points helpfully to the way forward, and inspires us with its promise. This is why we are Quakers.… (mehr)
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