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020			_a9781845403416 (electronic bk.)
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100	1		_aStevenson, Leslie.
245	1	0	_aOpen to New Light _h[electronic resource] : _bQuaker Spirituality in Historical and Philosophical Context.
260			_aLuton : _bAndrews UK, _c2011.
300			_a1 online resource (217 p.)
500			_aDescription based upon print version of record.
505	0		_aCover; Contents; Front Matter; Title Page; Publisher Information; Preface; Body Matter; A Sevenfold Spiritual Quest; The Philosophy of Socrates; Ancient Athens in the 5th century BCE; The life and death of Socrates; Our sources of knowledge about Socrates; Socrates' philosophy; A few comments on Socrates' philosophy; The Teaching of Jesus; Ancient Jewish history up to the time of Jesus; The sources of our knowledge of Jesus; Jesus's teaching; Some comments on Jesus's teaching; Ancient Philosophies of Life; The world of multicultural empires; Plato; Aristotle; Epicureanism; Stoicism
505	8		_aRoman StoicismRationalism or Fundamentalism; Christianity--the first three centuries; The Council of Nicea; The Trinity, the Holy Spirit, and Eastern Orthodox Christianity; Muhammad and the birth of Islam; Medieval Islam; Medieval Judaism; Christian scholastic philosophy; George Fox and the Beginning of the Quakers; The Reformation; 17th-century England; George Fox's Light of Christ Within; The beginning of the Quaker movement; Fox's religious ethics; The growth of Quakerism; Light or Enlightenment?; Inward light?; Robert Barclay's "immediate revelations" and Descartes' "natural light"
505	8		_aFallibilism in identifying the Light or SpiritLocke on "enthusiasm" and "reason"; The Enlightenment; Kant's Philosophy of Religion Compared to Quakerism; Kant's philosophy; Does the Religious Society of Friends exemplify Kant's ethical community?; How far do Quakers and Kant agree on theology?; Do Kant and Quakers differ on the possibility of religious experience?; God as Metaphor; Is it a matter of existence?; Conceptions of God in the Bible and the Qur'an; Personification in the arts; Personification in theology; God-talk without personification; Farrer on poetic truth
505	8		_aMetaphorical realism in theology?Resurrection?; Dogma and openness in religion; What is resurrection of the body supposed to be?; The resurrection of Jesus?; Resurrection as spiritual renewal; Wittgenstein and an epistemology of love?; Back Matter; Also Available;
520			_aThis book is about "the meaning of life" or "the spiritual quest". It offers a selective and critical evaluation of some central strands of Western religious and philosophical thought over two and a half thousand years. It starts with Socrates' philosophy of life, and the Greek tradition of philosophy that he initiated. It gives its own "take" on the teaching of Jesus, and on the long and controversial history of Christianity. There is a chapter devoted to George Fox and the beginning of ...
650		0	_aReligions _xPhilosophy.
650		0	_aSpiritual life _xSociety of Friends.
650		0	_aQuakers _xConduct of life.
650		7	_aRELIGION / Christian Life / General _2bisacsh
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aStevenson, Leslie _tOpen to New Light : Quaker Spirituality in Historical and Philosophical Context _dLuton : Andrews UK,c2011 _z9781845402303
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