PYM – Faith and Practice

• Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• Historical Introduction
• Friends Beliefs and Practices
• Our Meeting Community
• Applications of Friends Testimonies
• Extracts from the Writings of Friends
  • Advices
  • Belief
  • Worship
  • Experience
  • Concerns, Leadings, Testimonies
• Structures in our Yearly Meeting
• Queries
• Glossary
• Sources of Extracts
• Biographical Notes of Authors
• Index

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 revised in 2002, with updates in the section on Yearly Meeting structures and a new section of biographical notes.

Online HTML edition

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Historical Introduction

Friends Beliefs and Practices

Our Meeting Community

Applications of Friends Testimonies

Extracts from the Writings of Friends

Advices

Belief

Worship

Experience

Concerns, Leadings, Testimonies

Structures in our Yearly Meeting

Queries

Glossary

Sources of Extracts

Biographical Notes of Authors

Index

Plain-text

A plain-text version of the complete text is here (620k).

Adobe Acrobat PDF edition

The 1997 revision [soon to be the 2002 revision] is also 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, and Historical Introduction (384k)

Friends Beliefs and Practice (304k)

Our Meeting Community (484k)

Applications of Friends Testimonies (300k)

Extracts from the Writings of Friends

Advices (100k)

Belief (288k)

Worship (460k)

Experience (196k)

Concerns, Leadings, Testimonies (480k)

Structures in Our Yearly Meeting (456k)

Queries (184k)

Glossary (196k)

Sources of Extracts (384k)

Index (252k)

1806 Rules of Discipline

See also: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting's 1806 edition of Rules of Discipline, known colloquially in later years as "The Old Discipline," made available online (and in print) by Quaker Heritage Press.

Other Yearly Meetings

Many other yearly meetings also have their books of Faith and Practice—past, current, and/or in process of revision—available online. We've compiled a list of links to those editions, current as of Spring 2006.