Quakers Reading Mystics

by Michael Birkel and Michael L. Birkel

Over the centuries, Quakers have read non-Quakers regarded as mystics. This study explores the reception of mystical texts among the Religious Society of Friends, focusing in particular on Robert Barclay and John Cassian, Sarah Lynes Grubb and Jeanne Guyon, Caroline Stephen and Johannes Tauler, Rufus Jones and Jacob Boehme, and Teresina Havens and Buddhist texts selected by her. Points of connection include the nature of apophatic prayer, suffering...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004372296
• ISBN13: 9789004372290
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 124 Pages