Quakers and the use of power

by Paul A. Lacey

Pamphlet, 1982

Status

Available

Call number

CP 241

Series

Pendle Hill Pamphlets

Tags

authority, Quaker history, Quaker theology, Quaker process

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Publication

Wallingford, Pa. : Pendle Hill Publications, 1982.

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Lacey asserts in this discussion of leadership that Friends have a deep ambivalence about the exercise of power, stemming from fear of power and confusion about authority and its relationship to power. This affects negatively our leadership in the Society of Friends and its institutions. There is some useful material here, and some that seems dated.… (more)

Subjects

Authority Religious aspects
Power (Christian theology)
Society of Friends Influence

ISBN

0875742416 / 9780875742410

Local notes

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 241

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CP 241

Barcode

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