Faith & Practice
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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.
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- 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 Established Meetings - 202
- Revising Faith and Practice - 203
- Queries - 205
- Glossary - 215
- Sources of Extracts -
222
- Index - 232
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