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[CelticNorth]

Margery Post Abbot, in a Pendle Hill Puplication, " A Certain Kind of Perfection", notes that today's Evangelical Friends International ( EFI )were strongly influenced by the Weselyn Holliness Movement of the 19th century in the formation of their theology and practice, which facilitated separation from Friends United Meeting ( FUM ). The Holiness Revival Movement of the 19th century also lead to theological positions which may have began the Gurneyite and Wilberite factiious split. Evangelical positions on stressing the Bible as authoritative and an empahsis on prothesizing salvation of the soul would lead me to think, then, of Evangelical Quakers as "Wesgelical Quakers", and also got me to thinking why Quakers influenced by Weselyn theology did not end up becoming Weselyn. Like the suggested dual membership of Anglican and Quaker suggested here, dualism and connections with other Protestant demoninations may be more normative than unique within today Quakers population. I find the Holiness Movement of the 19th century a fascinating subject, particualry in its affects on those outside the Weselyn ministry.

[Dragonfly]

Hello, Hope!

[kiwihelen]