Words, faith and action: The Anti-War
Stuart Masters, in the first of a three-part series, looks at three books on aspects of contemporary Quakerism
‘…this is a time for Friends to take their bearings anew with the peace testimony, to explore the meaning of anti-war as a noun and not only as an adjective. An adjective modifies a noun; it qualifies something that is. But what are we as Friends today?’
Douglas Gwyn, The Anti-War
In this recent book, The Anti-War, Douglas Gwyn offers a robust challenge to Quakers of all shades of belief and practice about the dangers of assimilation into the dominant cultures of our time. This challenge is aimed at both pastoral Evangelicals, who have been tempted to accommodate themselves to the right-wing, militaristic aspects of Western cultural Christianity, and unprogrammed liberals, who ‘have become habituated to middle class progressive respectability’ under the influence of Enlightenment humanism.
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