The Quaker Practice : Spiritual Baptism

“The United Methodist Church is diverse in the way it offers the Sacramental Baptism; “Candidates or their parents have the choice of sprinkling, pouring, or immersion, and pastors and congregations should be prepared to honor the requests for baptism in any of these modes” (Committee 1992, p. 81). It is important for individuals to understand the meaning of each mode. Immersion symbolizes the burial and resurrection with Christ, and being born of a new water and the spirit. Pouring or sprinkling water on the head signifies pouring out of the Holy Spirit. Pastors should be able to share each mode with the candidates. The United Methodist

really are. Quakers believe that there is God in every single human being. They are

The development of the Quaker faith in 1640s England, and their emphasis on millennialism as an important dogmatic principle, can be seen as a direct response to the

Researching for the Religious Society of Friends or Quakers as they are called heavily reminds me of Social Work. Their core beliefs and values correlate very closely to Social Work’s own core beliefs and values. For my paper, I will discuss Quakerism, their practices, beliefs, values, and how Quakerism supports human rights and equality.

A fascinating and difficult issue has emerged from a uniquely Mormon practice that stems from a religious fascination with genealogy. In fact, if a Mormon visits Salt Lake City, they are able to take advantage of a vast genealogical research facility at no cost.

The Quakers formed in England in 1652. Many people today considered the Quakers as radical Puritans because they went to extremes many Puritan convictions. They stretched the deportment of the Puritans into a “glorification of "plainness."”. Faithfully they expanded the Puritan concept of a church by the Holy Spirit to the idea of the need of the Spirit in every person. Quakers were severely persecuted in England for daring to drift so far from orthodox Christianity. By 1680, 10,000 Quakers had been imprisoned in England and 243 had died of torture and mistreatment in jail. This fear caused Friends to seek refuge in Rhode Island in the 1670s. In 1681, when Quaker leader William Penn parlayed a debt owed by Charles II to his father into a charter

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The Quaker religion was founded in 1647 by George Fox. He had a realization that members of every religion carried the “inner light of Jesus Christ” (Walton). The first followers of Fox were called “Children of the Light.” They did not believe in violence or war, and this belief caused many Quakers to reject positions in the military which caused them to be imprisoned. Quakers gave women a higher status in society than other communities. Many women were ministers and nearly half of missionaries were women (Dandelion). Women were also imprisoned for the same actions as men. After facing persecution in England, Quakers moved to America for religious freedom. In 1827, a schism in the Quaker faith divided the Quakers into Orthodox Quakers and Hicksite

I did not grow up adhering to any religious faith. Both of my parents grew up in religious families, but did not hold onto this faith into adulthood or pass any ideologies down to my siblings or I. For this reason I do not regularly experience religion of any kind, so I wanted my cultural encounter to be of a religious culture in order to encounter something completely new. I chose to attend Quaker Meeting for Worship because the Quaker religion is very prevalent in Pennsylvania especially around the Philadelphia area. Haverford College was founded by Quakers and Bryn Mawr has always been closely associated as well. Additionally, many of the local towns have meeting houses within them making the Quakerism a perfect religion to explore.

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The first Quakers lived in England in the middle of the 17th century. The Quakerism movement originates from the same time as when other Protestant groups broke away from the established Church of England, which was during and after the English Civil War of 1642 to 1651. A young man by the name of George Fox, who was dissatisfied with the Church of England, became convinced that it was possible to have a direct relationship with Christ without the assistance of a clergy. He traveled around England, the Netherlands, and Barbados to preach and convert others to his faith. His followers deemed themselves to be the re-establishment of the true Christian church after centuries of apostasy in the churches of

Quakers otherwise known as the Society of Friends are a religious group that is very closely related to Christianity. Quakerism differs from Christianity by five main contradicting beliefs. Rather than attending a church sermon, Quakers attended a meeting or also called the meeting of friends. There are two types of meetings that could be held, the first being a meeting of meditation where they would sit in silence until the Holy Spirit answered them. The second type of meeting was conducted through hymns and scripture reading as the attendees felt the need to do so. Most Quakers did not believe in priests due to the fact of their belief that God will reveal the truth to them through revelations or visions. In Quakerism, they had a strong belief

Love & Talbot are in congruence with Vygotsky in regards to pacing of spiritual development being of the same nature as moving through identified developmental stages. For example, “[Spiritual development] can be motivated by the unrest of dissatisfaction individuals feel when their sense of values and meaning are not clear or congruent with the way they live their lives” (Love & Talbot, 2014). Oftentimes leaps of spiritual development follow the realization of the aforementioned dissonance. The practice of water baptism, for example, illustrates this. The candidate for baptism typically makes a statement of faith, usually including a brief allusion to his or her testimony. The symbol of water baptism is “dying” to the old, pre­salvation sinful­natured

Early objections to the idea of keeping slaves as subordinate to whites came about not because of a growing desire that all men be free, but from religious groups that believed that all men were equal in God’s eyes (Davis, 2006). There were more than a dozen written condemnations of slavery prior to 1750 – all written by Quakers. The Quakers were a small religious sect that practiced quiet contemplation and had generally few stated beliefs. However, they were interested in change and many tended to believe that slavery was wrong and an exploitation of others (Carey and Plank, 2014). All men, some Quakers professed, were brothers and that included black men and slaves. Even as far back as the 17th century, Quakers were speaking out on the subject

I am doing my term paper on The Baptism Debate. We were all given a choice of what we wanted to do for our topic and I decided on this debate because I kind of knew a little about this subject and wanted to see the different views included. There is a slight bias to this subject matter because of my own personal experiences in my life. Throughout Scripture, Christians have all agreed that it is God’s will that all must be baptized. It has been commanded by Him and not considered an optional experience for individuals. Learning about the two different viewpoints, that I will express in this paper, have brought out a great argument about when and how a human being should be baptized. I am now going to talk about the history of