Quaker Quicks - Telling the Truth About God
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Quaker Quicks - Telling the Truth About God

Quaker Approaches to Theology

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Quaker Quicks - Telling the Truth About God

Quaker Approaches to Theology

About this book

Telling the truth about God without excluding anyone is a challenge to the Quaker community. Drawing on the author's academic research into Quaker uses of religious language and her teaching to Quaker and academic groups, Rhiannon Grant aims to make accessible some key theological and philosophical insights. She explains that Quakers might sound vague but are actually making clear and creative theological claims. Theology isn't just for wordy people or intellectuals, it's for everyone. And that's important because our religious language is related to, not separate from, our religious experience. It also becomes clear that denying other people's claims often leads to making your own and that even apparently negative positions can also be making positive statements. How do Quakers tell the truth about God? This book explores this key theological process through fourteen short chapters. As Quakers, we say that we know some things, but not very much, about God, and that we are in a constant process of trying to improve our ways of saying what we do know.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Epigraph
  6. Dedication
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction for non-Quakers
  9. Introduction for Quakers
  10. What does ‘doing theology’ involve?
  11. Overview of this book
  12. Experience first: how Quakers know things
  13. No hireling priests, or, plugging in directly
  14. A spiral of denials
  15. I wouldn’t say that
  16. Listening as an action
  17. Telling our stories
  18. New words for new light
  19. Unity and diversity: all the words in one big list
  20. Putting Jesus in his place(s)
  21. Connecting to the big story: Quakers and Buddhism
  22. Pronouns and beyond
  23. The personal: the stories of words in our lives
  24. Not God
  25. In everyone
  26. Saying Thou to we know not what
  27. After reading this book