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Testimony - Quakerism and Theological Ethics (Paperback)
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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, 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.
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