The Experience of Regeneration and Erosion of Certainty in the Theology of Second-Generation Quakers
No Place for Doubt
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22314397 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nikki Coffey Tousley (University of Dayton, Ohio, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 6-88 |
| Publication date | 2008-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Quaker Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1363-013X • E-ISSN: 2397-1770 |
| Publisher | Open Library of the Humanities (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3828/quaker.13.1.6 |
| OpenAlex | W2898107514 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
The convincement accounts of first- and second-generation Quakers reveal changes in the implicit, narrative theology of regeneration and revelation, despite a relatively consistent articulated theology. Early Friends experienced one, overarching grace that encompassed justification, sanctification and the restoration of creation, emphasizing the culminating experience of regeneration. Anxiety about election, inherited from Puritanism, was replaced with assurance grounded in an experience of victory over sin that both justified and sanctified, and conferred a new, immediate understanding of the truth. This understanding was a subjective, relational knowledge of God’s presence that was only secondarily propositional
Aesthetics · Certainty · Discernment · Epistemology · Eschatology · Forgiveness · Narrative · Perfection · Political science · Religious experience · Revelation · Sanctification · Sociology · Spirituality · Theology · Victory · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment
| Citations per year | 0.12 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2010 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |