Through a glass darkly
Ian Kirk-Smith reviews a new book by David Boulton
In 2015 Derek Guiton published a book entitled A Man that Looks on Glass. It highlighted what he felt was ‘a crisis in British Quakerism’ – a ‘growing secularisation’ within the Religious Society of Friends. There were two movements and they represented competing and ‘incompatible belief systems’. A group of nonthesists were challenging the very basis of the Society – unchecked, their activities could tip it over.
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