ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author shall be reflecting on the path which his Christian discipleship has followed and the way that this path has shaped the questions which he have asked and continue to ask about the nature and development of Quaker theology and the place of Quakerism within the wider Christian Church. At this stage in his spiritual pilgrimage he was strongly attracted by the vision of Quakerism set out in George Gorman’s book Introducing Quakers which he had been sent by what was then the Friends Home Service Committee when he first began to make enquiries about Quakerism. While being quite happy to buy into Gorman’s experiential account of Quakerism, the author still wanted to see an acknowledgment of the importance of Jesus within Quakerism and Gorman duly provided him with one. The dilemma he was faced with was how to hold together his commitment to Quakerism and the way in which his theological thinking was developing.
