Quakers and Mysticism

Jon R. Kershner teaches in the Religion department at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, USA.

• 1) Introduction: Quaker Engagements with Mysticism.- 2) “Meeting”: The Mystical Legacy of George Fox.- 3) James Nayler and Jacob Boehme’s The Way to Christ.- 4) How Ecology, Economics, and Ethics Brought Winstanley and Nitobe to Quakerism.- 5) Robert Barclay and Kabbala.- 6) Elizabeth Ashbridge and Spiritual Autobiography: The Old Awakened in the New.- 7) John Woolman’s Christological Model of Discernment.- 8) Hannah Whitall Smith’s Highway of Holiness.- 9) The Unifying Light of Allah: Ibn Tufail and Rufus Jones in Dialogue.- 10) Howard Thurman (1899-1981): Universalist Approaches to Buddhism and Quakerism.- 11) The Singing Mysticism: Kenyan Quakerism, the Case of Gideon W. H. Mweresa.- 12)  Liberal Quakers and Buddhism.- 13) Conclusion.