Quaker Universalist Fellowship
The Quaker Universalist Fellowship is a religious organization serving predominantly individuals with an ongoing association with the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), a universalist understanding of Quaker teachings and traditions, and a commitment to religious pluralism. It has published books and periodicals from Landenberg, Pennsylvania since the 1980s.[1]
It calls itself
- an informal gathering of persons who cherish the spirit of universality that has always been intrinsic to the Quaker faith[2]
and says that its mission is
- to foster the understanding that within everyone is a directly accessible spiritual light that can lead people to equality, simplicity, justice, compassion and peace.[3]
Somewhat different from the way the term Universalism is typically understood in Christian theology, Quaker universalism focuses on the “belief that there is a spirit of universal love in every person, and that a compassion-centered life is therefore available to people of all faiths and backgrounds.”[4]
Publications[]
- , , , Waiting and resting in the true silence
- , Militant seedbeds of early Quakerism : two essays
- , That blessed principle : reflections on the uniqueness of Quaker universalism, 1988
- Avery Dulles, Revelation and the religions
- , The universality of unknowing : Luther Askeland and the wordless way, 2007
- , The Quaker dynamic : personal faith and corporate vision
- , , Spirit and trauma : a universalist world view as an instrument of healing
- , There is a hunger : mutual spiritual friendship, 1994
- , , Hildegard of Bingen, a 12th century holistic world view
- , Islam from a Quaker perspective, 2002
- , Should Quakers receive the Good Samaritan into their membership?, 1998
- , The place of prayer is a precious habitation, 1994
- , They too are Quakers : a survey of 199 nontheist Friends
- Daniel A. Seeger
- Quaker universalists : their ministry among Friends and in the world, 1989
- The boundaries of our faith : a reflection on the practice of goddess spirituality in New York Yearly Meeting, from the perspective of a Universalist Friend, 1991
- I have called you friends (John 15:15), 1997
- The mystical path : pilgrimage to the one who is always here, 2004
- Michael Anthony Sells, The generous Qurʼan : ten selected suras
- Mulford Quickert Sibley
- and , Authority and mysticism in Quaker and Buddhist thought : essays
- In praise of Gandhi : technology and the ordering of human relations, 2005
- , Universalism and me
- Elizabeth G. Watson, Journey to universalism
-
- Hazardous engagement : God makes a Friend, 2006
- Universalism and religions, 2007
References[]
- ^ WorldCat author search
- ^ Universalist Friends -- The Journal of the Quaker Universalist Fellowship
- ^ Quaker Universalist Fellowship
- ^ "About QUF". universalistfriends.org. Retrieved 4 June 2014.
Categories:
- Quaker organizations based in the United States
- Book publishing companies based in Pennsylvania
- Christian groups with universalist beliefs
- Religious organizations established in the 1980s
- Publishing companies established in the 1980s
- Christian organization stubs