‘This Is Our Testimony to the Whole World’: Quaker Peace Work and Religious Experience

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Quakers express their faith by refraining from war, often actively opposing it. In modern Quakerism, this is known as the ‘Peace Testimony’. This commonly has a negative and positive construal: it seen testimony against to possibility goodness of peaceful lives. paper offers an account how these aspects Peace Testimony are unified in grounded on corporate experience being led God into way life that renders war unthinkable. My goal make sense Friends’ activism light religious introduce some ideas Quaker practical theology philosophers theologians more generally. I begin considering role what Rachel Muers calls ‘negative testimony’ peace work, arguing we risk misunderstanding work if do not see unity Testimony’s negativity peace-making endeavors. then turn ground, which claim can be nothing other than direct revelation. conclude prominent objections pacifism, such Elizabeth Anscombe’s, hold little weight Testimony.

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عنوان ژورنال: Religions

سال: 2022

ISSN: ['2077-1444']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13070623