'She puts theology back at the heart of it, tracing the development of Keith’s theology through several decades.' Photo: George Keith portrait / Book cover of The Christian Quaker: George Keith and the Keithian Controversy, by Madeleine Ward

Author: Madeleine Ward. Review by Simon Webb

The Christian Quaker: George Keith and the Keithian Controversy, by Madeleine Ward

Author: Madeleine Ward. Review by Simon Webb

by Simon Webb 28th July 2023

George Keith was an important early Quaker, but, as Madeleine Ward reminds us in this book, this fascinating Scot is little-known among modern Friends. Little-known and even worse understood: Ward implies that scholars have tended to get him wrong.