The March issue of Friends Journal has a review of my book The Light That Is Given: Prophetic Quaker Faith that was published last June by Wipf and Stock Publishers, their Resource Publications imprint. I appreciate Marty Grundy’s thoughtful, knowledgeable evaluation of my work and have excerpted the final two paragraphs from her writing and copied them below. The full review can be found online here: https://www.friendsjournal.org/book/the-light-that-is-given-prophetic-quaker-faith/
Dallmann draws on the Bible and early Friends’ writings . . . as authentic witness to the Truth as testified to across time and culture. To this she adds her own witness to the Truth. . . . Her message is that we are to “know experientially the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom he has sent, whom he raised from the dead, the one in whom we live, and move, and have our being.” This is declared to be the Truth of prophetic Christian faith known by Paul, early Friends, Lewis Benson, and Swiss theologian Emil Brunner, among a host of other witnesses.
As Dallmann found inadequate the human-inspired and human-directed efforts to make Quakerism more palatable to modern Western folks, she invites readers to taste what she has found. The book will not be an easy read for many Friends of any of our branches. But that does not mean it is not an important book to read, ponder, and be open to experiencing its Truth. If we want to reclaim and live into the power of early Friends . . . Dallmann’s The Light That Is Given is a good place to begin.
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