Face to Face: Early Quaker Encounters with the Bible Contemporary In this moving and compassionate

In this moving and compassionate classic—now updated with new material from the authors—hospice nurses Callanan and Kelley share their intimate experiences with patients at the end of life

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Face to Face: Early Quaker Encounters with the Bible Contemporary In this moving and compassionateThe writings of George Fox, Edward Burrough, and Margaret Fell demonstrate that at least these three, first generation Friends, were reading the Bible with empathy. For them the heart of the Bible lay in its personal narratives the stories of living men, women, and communities; unlike many Christians, then and now, they did not look at the Bible as a legal constitution. They reveled in the poetic language of the Bible's rich symbol and metaphor. Out