Quakers and The Salvation Army
- primary theological development from 17th century
- Eucharistic theology: suspension/Memorialism
- "The bread and wine remind us of Jesus' body and blood."
- see George Fox
- Quakers understand all of life as being sacramental and thus do not practice baptism or holy communion. "We believe in the baptism of the Holy Spirit and in communion with that Spirit. If the believer experiences such spiritual baptism and communion, then no rite or ritual is necessary. ...The Quaker ideal is to make every meal at every table a Lord's Supper."
- Quakers and Salvationists do not practice Holy Communion in their worship, believing it was not meant to be a perpetually mandated ritual
Read more about this topic: Eucharistic Theologies Summarised
Famous quotes containing the words salvation army, quakers, salvation and/or army:
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you were daddy of the poets, witchman, you stand
for all, for all the bad dead, a Salvation Army Band
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—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
“A few ideas seem to be agreed upon. Help none but those who help themselves. Educate only at schools which provide in some form for industrial education. These two points should be insisted upon. Let the normal instruction be that men must earn their own living, and that by the labor of their hands as far as may be. This is the gospel of salvation for the colored man. Let the labor not be servile, but in manly occupations like that of the carpenter, the farmer, and the blacksmith.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
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—Sun Tzu (6–5th century B.C.)