This book examines the nearly 400 year tradition of Quaker engagements with mystical ideas and sources. It provides a fresh assessment of the way that religious traditions and social context can shape a religious tradition, and also respond to historical and theological antecedents within the tradition. Quaker spiritual concepts such as “Meeting,” the “Light,” and embodied spirituality have led Friends to develop an interior spirituality that resonated with extra-Quaker sources. Influences on Quaker spirituality include Jakob Boehme, the Continental Quietists, and Buddhist thought. Through time and across culture, these and other conversations have shaped Quaker self-understanding and have expanded traditional models of how religious ideas take root within a tradition. The thinkers engaged in this book include George Fox, James Nayler, Robert Barclay, Elizabeth Ashbridge, John Woolman, Hannah Whitall Smith, Rufus Jones, Howard Thurman, and Gideon W. H. Mweresa. weiterlesen