lies https://www.quakerranter.org/tag/lies/ A Weekly Newsletter and Blog from Martin Kelley Fri, 17 Oct 2025 21:13:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/www.quakerranter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/cropped-qr-512.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 lies https://www.quakerranter.org/tag/lies/ 32 32 16720591 Steven Davison looks at “That of God” (Again) https://www.quakerranter.org/steven-davison-looks-at-that-of-god-again/ https://www.quakerranter.org/steven-davison-looks-at-that-of-god-again/#respond Fri, 17 Oct 2025 20:59:50 +0000 https://www.quakerranter.org/?p=315591 Often proffered as the primary belief among modern Friends, the phrase has been stretched and pulled to the point of obtuseness in recent years. In the early twentieth century Rufus Jones resuscitated it from pastoral letters of Quaker co-founder George Fox. But in 1970, Lewis Benson penned a scathing takedown of both Jones and “that of God” as a formulation.

Davison is returning to the debate:

“That of God” yearns for God, Fox implies in the quote we always use for this phrase. In that epistle, once we have done the inner work of our own transformation in the light of Christ ourselves, then we can answer that of God in others. That of God within us is calling out in the darkness, and the Light answers with the Word.

“That of God”—Again
“That of God”—Again

For decades, I have complained about Friends claiming that “that of God in everyone” is our central tenet…
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