Quakers in Conflict: The Hicksite Reformation
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0870495011
ISBN 13
9780870495014
Category
Quaker - History
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Publication Year
1986
Publisher
Pages
310
Subject
Hicksites
Abstract
Ingle provides a thorough narrative of the divisive conflict that divided American Quakers in the 1820s. He portrays the division between the prosperous Philidelphian patriarchs who controlled American Quakerism and the small fry mainly farming Quakers who rebelled against the patriarchal harness. The former clothed themselves in the evangelical ideology of the external blood atonement and Biblical supremacy. The latter reacted with an internal spirituality and a personal experience supremacy. Although the schism was institutionally healed in the 1950s, it continues today in sporadic flare ups. A major schismatic brush fire is now ravaging the Quaker Indiana Yearly Meeting in which the Richmond West Friends Quaker Meeting for its advocacy for gays and lesbians has been condemned and spewed out by a gaggle of blood atoning scriptural pounding leaches.
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