期刊名称：Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies
印刷版ISSN：1583-0039
出版年度：2012
卷号：11
期号：32
页码：288-305
语种：English
出版社：SACRI
摘要：The following exploration of the fundamentals of the Religious Society of Friends called Quakers will focus upon a lesser known tradition of the Quakers, namely that of the "Free Friends of Philadelphia" and their modern progeny, the Free Quakers of Indiana These Free Quakers, as they are called, are those who chose to exercise their free right to follow their conscience in all things, a tradition reaching back to the 18 th century in Philadelphia when a contingent of Friends chose to support the war against Britain. A great deal is known about the programmed and unprogrammed traditions of the Religious Society of Friends, the former electing to have recorded ministers and formalized worship and the latter opting for no clergy and a preference for the mystical tradition of silent worship. Much less is known about the Free Quakers of Revolutionary Pennsylvania and the subsequent modern day Friends, their ideological progeny. In this brief essay, we intend to correct this common oversight in Quaker history.
关键词：Quakers; Society of Friends; American Religious History; Inner Light; Peace; Justice; Simplicity; Free Quakers; Stewardship; mysticism
