The testimonies: a theological muddle?

John Lampen attempts to unravel some tangled threads

by John Lampen 20th May 2011

Roger Hill (letters, 6 May) challenges us by suggesting that present-day British Quakers ‘have invented four testimonies… which have been raised to credal status’ creating ‘a theological muddle’. He finds our present concepts of peace confused, truth and simplicity insincere, and equality unbiblical; so the four ‘fail the test of religious truth’.