tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52912413020249030.post457399372796922212..comments2024-03-12T11:58:24.510+13:00Comments on Otagosh: The Emperor's New Grand NarrativeGavin Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17965552923012880262noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52912413020249030.post-36868019947467831092010-12-11T04:00:30.402+13:002010-12-11T04:00:30.402+13:00Paul D.,
A church with no Bible? Sounds good to m...Paul D.,<br /><br />A church with no Bible? Sounds good to me! <a href="http://www.universalistfriends.org/" rel="nofollow">Quakers</a> have held to the same philosophy for three hundred and fifty years; they respect "sacred writings" as containing bits of human wisdom (mixed in with all the gory bits), but they are all written by men, for men.<br /><br />George Fox, the founder of the Religious Society of Friends, did NOT use "the Bible" when he first got his movement off the ground, in fact he decried his fellow Protestants (and the Jews as well, although early Friends were also early adopters, and they dropped the anti-Semitic rhetoric far more quickly than any of the Protestant groups did) for being "people of the book".<br /><br />Fox's later writings state that, when he did start reading the Christian canon, he found all the insights he had already come to, within its pages.<br /><br />Also search for 19th-century American book called "Letters From Paul and Amicus", which were published in a Christian magazine, detailing the differences of belief between the Christians of the book, and the later American Christian Friends.<br /><br />Hope that helps!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52912413020249030.post-3154886802226813392010-12-10T02:54:46.085+13:002010-12-10T02:54:46.085+13:00I keep thinking about the early church lately, whi...I keep thinking about the early church lately, which didn't even have a Bible, and wondering if we can ever get back to that simplicity.Paul D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13483419817200339955noreply@blogger.com