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Testimony Rachel Muers

Testimony By Rachel Muers

Testimony by Rachel Muers


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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.

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Testimony: Quakerism and Theological Ethics by Rachel Muers

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, Rachel Muers presents 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. She focuses in particular on the character of testimonies as sustained refusals of specific practices and structures, and on 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, Rachel Muers engages 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, she develops this general account through a series of case studies in Quaker testimony, written and practised. She uses each one to explore aspects of the meaning of, and need for, shared and individual testimony.

About Rachel Muers

Rachel Muers is Senior Lecturer in Christian Studies at the University of Leeds.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Knowing Experimentally: Approaches to Quaker Testimony and Theology 1. Walking in the Light: The Bible and Quaker Testimony 2. 'We do utterly deny...': Refusals, Silences and Negative Testimony 3. Speaking Truth to Power, and Other Holy Experiments 4. 'Sweat not at all': Oaths, Non-Violence and Conscience 5. Religious Freedom and Solidarity: Quaker Martyrs and their Communities 6. Being Witnesses: Marriage, Sexuality and Tradition 7. Sustainability and Simplicity

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NLS9780334046684
9780334046684
0334046688
Testimony: Quakerism and Theological Ethics by Rachel Muers
New
Paperback
SCM Press
2015-03-31
192
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