Solving a dilemma: Plato for Quakers, by Philip Waywell
‘Plato did believe that the route to “the Good” went via the disciplined work of attention.’
Christian theology is peppered with Plato, and so is the Quaker way. Our belief in that of God in every person – and our practice of attentive stillness – is inescapably neoplatonic.
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