ABSTRACT
The Evangelical period that was to replace Quietist Quakerism in Britain in the nineteenth century and form its own tradition in the United States brought with it new understandings of how best to help the Quaker people of God remain faithful. The Modernist tendencies within this Evangelical Quakerism would further divide Evangelical Quakerism in the US and create a Liberal Quakerism to replace Evangelical domination in Britain. This chapter charts these shifts and how they were played out in changing understandings of Quaker liturgy. The architects of the Liberal Quakerism that emerged at the end of the nineteenth century were all Modernist Evangelicals, Friends whose dedication to modernism and its consequences was to undermine their evangelicalism. Jones and Rowntree and William Charles Braithwaite collaborated on plans for a multi-volume history of Quakerism. Their vision was both to open Quakerism up to the world and enable it to retain its distinctive identity.
