Face to Face: Early Quaker Encounters with the Bible Contemporary salvation is a new kind

salvation is a new kind of life

Karole Cox

Each time we return to the center in prayer we are modeling how to live our lives

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Face to Face: Early Quaker Encounters with the Bible Contemporary salvation is a new kindThe writings of George Fox, Edward Burrough, and Margaret Fell demonstrate that at least these three, first generation Friends, were reading the Bible with empathy. For them the heart of the Bible lay in its personal narratives the stories of living men, women, and communities; unlike many Christians, then and now, they did not look at the Bible as a legal constitution. They reveled in the poetic language of the Bible's rich symbol and metaphor. Out