Quaker Shaped Christianity

Quaker Shaped Christianity: How the Jesus Story and the Quaker Way Fit Together

Part of the Quaker Quicks series. This series of short paperbacks is very useful for outreach and for religious education. Note, the reviewer for Friends Journal felt author Mark Rush "does not pretend to have the ambition of giving Christianity a Quaker shape, but his intent is clearly to give the Quaker way a Christian shape."

'What is Quakerism?' can be a difficult question to answer, especially when Quakers today struggle to find a shared religious language. In this book, Mark Russ answers this question from a personal perspective, telling his story of trying to make sense of Jesus within the Quaker community. Through this theological wrestling emerges a 'Quaker Shaped Christianity' that is contemporary, open and rooted in tradition. In reflecting on how to approach the Bible, the challenges of Universalism, and the key events of the Jesus story, this book offers a creative, inspiring and readable theology for everyone who has wondered how Christianity and Quakerism fit together.