Through a glass darkly

Ian Kirk-Smith reviews a new book by David Boulton

by Ian Kirk-Smith 16th December 2016

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.