Liturgies of Quakerism

The Liturgies of Quakerism explores the nature of liturgy within a form of worship based in silence. Tracing the original seventeenth century Quakers'' understanding of the ''liturgy of silence'', and what for them replaced the outward forms used in other parts of Christianity, this book explains how early Quaker understandings of ''time'', ''history'', and ''apocalyptic'' led to an inward liturgi...