The Universality of Unknowing

Résumé du livre

[The author] believes that the very essence of Quakerism rests in accepting the possibility that every human being may have a direct and personal relationship to God, the Tao, or the spiritual universe -- whatever name one chooses -- independent of belief, creed, clergy, or organization. Paradoxically, this extreme of individual seeking finds expression in a community of support, love, and mutual discernment. The resulting tensions between individualism and universalism, freedom and community, are mediated, [she] finds, by trust. When corporate trust fails, the Society of Friends falls apart; when it is present, we are each and all empowered.--From the publisher's description.