Talk:Quaker Faith and Practice

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[edit] How many F&P's to include

Since most yearly meetings produce a Faith and Practice it seems overly narrow to have this article just cover Britain's F&P. It seems to me that this article needs to be more broad in focus. --Ahc 14:57, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

I just realised about all the other similar books whilst researching, and came to the talk page to ask for help, so yes I agree. I'll just try to clarify that a bit on the page and then leave it to others who will know more than I do. EverSince 16:43, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] General Comments

• Since Britain Yearly Meeting's Quaker faith & practice is available online (at http://quakersfp.live.poptech.coop/qfp/contents.html) and as good explanatory material included, I doubt that there is a need for this article that someone has worked very hard to produce.
• I am not sure what evidence the author can produce for statement

  "Since the majority of the Society remain within a Christian theistic tradition"

  Has anyone done a global survey of individual Quaker beliefs, recently?
• If the author is looking at Britain YM's "Big Red Book", then they might note the Advices and Queries featured at the front and also published separately, as "the Little Red Book".
• If the Britain YM's Book of Discipline is being described, then the article should mention that a new edition, in two volumes is planned (The Friend,8 Dec 2006).

=== Vernon White (talk) 00:55, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

I started this article because I felt there was a need for an NPOV account of the main book of faith and practice as used by the Quakers. As noted above, the British F&P isn't the only one the article needs to summarise. The statement about the majority of the society was just an attempt to capture that the Quakers are known as a Christian religious organisation. I read somewhere (forget where just now) that about 1/4 of British Quakers profess non-theist views. I hope those who will know much more than I about this subject will go ahead and change thingsEverSince 22:39, 11 December 2006 (UTC) p.s. I put a link to this page in the main Quaker page but only under the British section, before I realised the international usage...not sure whether a distinct section on it on the main page is needed (instead of or in addition to this page) EverSince 22:47, 11 December 2006 (UTC)