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The Discipline Of Iowa Yearly Meeting Of The Society Of Friends

The Discipline Of Iowa Yearly Meeting Of The Society Of Friends

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ISBN10: 9354487971
ISBN13: 9789354487972
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Mar 15 2021
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.26 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
How did a frontier Quaker community shape its shared life, authority, and worship? The Discipline Of Iowa Yearly Meeting Of The Society Of Friends offers a clear, unembellished record of Quaker faith and practice as it was organised in the American Midwest. Faith, discipline, community in action. Set out as a Quaker church discipline manual and religious governance handbook, it defines Society of Friends rules, responsibilities and procedures, revealing how meetings ordered their business, recognised ministry and safeguarded everyday conduct. For anyone interested in church polity and discipline, this historic Quaker book of discipline is both a spiritual mirror and a practical Christian denominational discipline guide. It stands as a key resource for religious historians tracing nineteenth century Quakers and Iowa Quaker history, and as a steady reference for Quaker members who wish to understand the roots of their tradition. Students engaged in Christian church governance studies will find in these pages a working model of congregational order shaped by conscience, scripture and communal discernment. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, restored for today's and future generations, this volume is more than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure. Carefully presented for modern readers while preserving its period voice, it speaks to casual readers curious about historic faith communities as well as to scholars, archivists and collectors of classic religious texts.

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