The Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers, is one of the most distinctive movements to emerge from seventeenth-century Christianity. Quakers rejected many of the assumptions of established Christianity in their day. They had no ordained priesthood in the traditional sense, emphasized direct experience of God, gathered for worship in silence, rejected social … Read More “The History of the Quakers: From George Fox to a Global Religious Movement” »
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Anabaptists, Reformation
As a Baptist, I was a little surprised to see Baptists grouped with Unitarians and Quakers in this video. But watching the video, it makes sense. What Ryan Reeves does is to look at the Anabaptists and how that movement affected other groups. Characteristics of Anabaptists found in later groups, even though those groups may … Read More “Unitarians, Baptists, and Quakers” »
