Early Quaker Thinkers and Three Ideas of Historical Recurrence

by | 1 Sep, 2012

Garry Trompf. New South Wales Regional Meeting.   The idea of historical recurrence has long pervaded Western thinking, and along with ideas of human progress, regress and also eschatological thought, it has been expressed through various paradigms, some well...

Robert Barclay : Who He Was and Why He Matters. Part 1.

by | 30 May, 2012

Paul Copeland, NSW Regional Meeting. If one were to start talking of Robert Barclay many modern Quakers may wonder whom he actually was. While George Fox and William Penn are now noted for their role in early Quakerism, Barclay goes relatively unnoticed. I feel this...