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Faith & Practice
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting has many publications, but the best known is Faith & Practice, a book which details the beliefs and practices of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) within the area served by the Yearly Meeting.
First adopted in 1955, Faith & Practice was revised in 1972. After 25 years and numerous reprintings, it was revised in 1997 and again updated in 2002 (for a "large type" edition). The 1997 revision is available in the form of Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) files.
To view these files, you will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is freely available for most computers.
- Foreword
- Preface
- Historical Introduction -
1
- Beginnings - 1
- Consolidation & Withdrawal - 5
- Schism and Reform - 6
- Reconciliation - 9
- Unity Amidst Diversity - 11
- Friends Beliefs and
Practices - 16
- The Light Within - 16
- Worship and Meeting for Worship - 17
- Decision-making - 21
- The Good Order Used Among Us - 26
- Committees for Clearness - 29
- Friends and the Bible - 30
- Prayer - 31
- Friends and the Sacraments - 32
- Our Meeting Community -
34
- Membership - 34
- Friends and Education - 43
- Quaker Marriage Procedures - 47
- Intervisitation - 56
- Death and Bereavement - 58
- Funds, Property, Burial Grounds - 60
- Opportunities for Wider Religious Fellowship and Action - 63
- Applications of Friends
Testimonies - 65
- Concerns, Leadings and Testimonies - 65
- Living with Ourselves and Others - 68
- Living in the World - 74
- Extracts from the Writings of Friends - 82
- Advices - 82
- Belief - 86
- Worship - 100
- Experience - 129
- Concerns, Leadings, Testimones -
145
- Structures in Our Yearly
Meeting - 175
- Monthly Meetings - 177
- Annual or Biennal Checklist for Monthly Meetings - 188
- Quarterly (Regional) Meetings - 190
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting - 193
- Fiduciary Corporation of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting - 200
- Meetings: Growth and Changes in Formal Relationships - 200
- Changes in Estalished Meetings - 202
- Revising Faith and Practice - 203
- Queries - 205
- Glossary - 215
- Sources of Extracts -
222
- Index - 232
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