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...Dogma v. Citizenship. Nor would Dr. Blanshard let his fellow Quakers take refuge in tradition, the Inner Light, the Bible, or their own definition of good citizenship. His points...
...Society. I doubt if a single eminent early Quaker can be named who consistently condemned all war. Penn, [John] Bright and [Herbert] Hoover are the only three Quakers who have ever held positions of first-rate public responsibility, and none of them found it possible to retain the pacifist dogma...
...Quakers have no formal creed; in its place they have put one great central doctrine, the doctrine of the Inner Light. What the Light reveals is left to the individual conscience; it is not imposed on us from outside. If this is correct, the attempt to prescribe the pacifist dogma is clearly inconsistent with that tolerance which the great doctrine implies...
...This is an inherent antithesis between the unity of medieval life and the chaos of the individualistic spirit of the Renaissance. There is an antithesis between a closed system of coherent culture and a system of rampant individualism, between dogma and free inquiry; you may have the one or the other. But you are chasing rainbows if you think you can have them both...
...most challenging are the contributions of Father Smyth of the Society of the Catholic Commonwealth and of an anonymous senior who writes under the pseudonym of Clark Hamilton '43. After a long and somewhat tedious statement of early Christian dogma, Father Smyth concludes that Christianity is in essence a collectivist faith, that it must concern itself with the evils of this world, and that the only Christian solution of those ills is therefore a collectivist one. This article is more Leftist in tone than even the famed Malvern Conference, and demonstrates that the Church both at home and abroad...