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- Title
LIFE AND DEATH, WAR AND PEACE: A LIBERAL QUAKER PERSPECTIVE.
- Authors
Cranmer, Frank
- Abstract
Quakers are enjoined to listen to the promptings of the ‘Inner Light’ and to answer ‘that of God in every one.’ This article looks at two interlinked aspects of Liberal Quaker practice: the Quaker attitude to death and dying and the Peace Testimony. Because many British Quakers-perhaps the majority-are unsure or doubtful about the possibility of any kind of personal survival after death, they concentrate on ministry to those who mourn rather than speculating as to the fate of those who have died. Similarly, the injunction to answer ‘that of God in every one’ has led inexorably to the Quaker tradition of pacifism. But neither of these is simple or unproblematical; and the Peace Testimony, in particular, still exercises the consciences of Friends-and leaves considerable room for private judgment.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; QUAKERS; SOCIETY of Friends; INNER Light; PEACE; REVELATION; DEATH; NONVIOLENCE; RELIGION
- Publication
Illness, Crisis & Loss, 2006, Vol 14, Issue 2, p169
- ISSN
1054-1373
- Publication type
Article