{"title":"Digital Download Books","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"a-new-foundation-to-build-on","title":"A New Foundation to Build On","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Lewis Benson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8.5\" x 11\" Downloadable PDF\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDescription: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThis is a series of five lectures by Lewis Benson given in 1976 at Haverford College. Those five  lectures are on the following topics: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLecture 1: The Problem of Being Human.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLecture 2: The Power of the Gospel.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLecture 3: The Gospel Generates Moral Power and Fellowship Forming Power.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLecture 4: The Gospel and SelfKnowledge.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLecture 5: Fellowship in the Work of Proclaiming and Building.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAppendix: Questions and Responses Follow Each Lecture.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIn his opening remarks, Benson describes how God has concerned himself in the plight of humanity.  He stated: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"The Bible tells us how God, the creator of all things, has concerned himself with the human problem...it tells us how God has spoken to particular men and women, in particular times and places...Abraham is the prototype of the perfect responder to God's call. He believed  and obeyed God, left his home and country and religion, and went forth \"knowing not  whither he went.\" The story of Abraham introduces us to the tension that is found everywhere in the Bible between religion and faith...Abraham is not portrayed in the Bible as the typical religious man--homo religious--but he is portrayed as the man of faith...The prophets of the Old Testament are the speakers of a word from God to God's people. Their message is a call to hear God and believe and obey him. It is the prophets who keep alive the tension between faith and religion...The word of God came to the prophet Isaiah saying: \"...look unto the rock from whence you are hewn,...Look unto Abraham your father, and  unto Sarah, that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him...\"(Isaiah 51:1 \u0026amp; 2) The prophets are the spokesmen for the God who is concerned with the problem of man, and they frequently remind the Hebrew people that preoccupation with religion is not pleasing to God…\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIn the subsequent lectures, Benson shows how the power of the gospel preached by the Apostles and rediscovered by George Fox speaks to the problem of being human. It is that gospel that produces the moral power enabling humanity to be recreated in the image of God. He goes on to show that there can be no true knowledge of one's self outside this gospel. And true fellowship exists only within the confines of living in and laboring in that gospel. Each lecture is followed by questions asked by the attenders of those lectures and Benson’s answers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Foundation Publications NF","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43236000432377,"sku":"","price":1.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0663\/6706\/2265\/products\/A-New-Foundation-To-Build-On-1-cover.jpg?v=1662507549"},{"product_id":"the-disciple-church","title":"The Disciple Church","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Lewis Benson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8.5\" x 11\" Downloadable PDF\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDescription: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIn his introduction to the six lectures, Lewis Benson gave his reason for these lectures on the nature of the church. He wrote: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"Several factors have combined to bring the church again into the forefront of interest. The first of these is the breakdown of the thousand-year synthesis between Christianity and  Western culture, known as Christendom. The church was once a vital part of Western civilization. Today she finds herself a stranger in a secularized world . . . A second factor has been the extensive growth of new churches in lands that have never had a Christian culture . . . A third factor has been the reaction from the individualistic Christianity of the  19th century. “We are rediscovering,” says J. H. Whale, “that so far from the church’s being a decorative appendage to Christianity, the church is Christianity; and that faith without community . . . would be a contradiction in terms.” . . . Quakerism contains within itself a  message about the nature of the church of the greatest importance. It is this discovery that has provided the incentive to re-examine and re-evaluate the original Quaker message concerning the nature of the church. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eI wish to maintain that the church of the New  Covenant is a disciple church, and that early Quakerism furnishes one of the most important historical examples of the disciple church.\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eBenson’s topics are: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eLecture 1: The People Of God In The Old Covenant. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eLecture 2: The People Of God In The New Covenant. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eLecture 3: The Church’s Fall And Restoration. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eLecture 4: Quakerism – The Flowering Of The Disciple Church. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eLecture 5: The Order That Belongs To The Gospel. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eLecture 6: The Disciple Church Today.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Foundation Publications NF","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43287936172281,"sku":"","price":1.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0663\/6706\/2265\/products\/benson-disciple-church-cover.jpg?v=1663376774"},{"product_id":"friends-and-the-truth","title":"Friends and the Truth","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Lewis Benson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8.5\" x 11\" Downloadable PDF\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDescription: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIn any discussion of “truth” someone is bound to throw out the eternal question: “What is truth?” It is a  perennial subject of philosophy and has been debated for all of known history. But we can never find  an answer until we change the interrogative “What” to “Who.” It is from this standpoint that Fox and  early Friends spoke about “truth.” Only by asking “Who is truth?” do you come to the revelation of the way to be restored to our true standing as creatures before our Creator. Lewis Benson stated: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"Fox’s conception of truth is grounded upon his belief that the life of man is determined by  his relationship to his creator. He believed that the creator speaks to man calling for right  action and for a community that lives under his rule. By listening to God and obeying his  word man fulfils the basic law of his being. This basic conversational relationship between  man and his creator is what Fox means by truth. Truth does not consist of particular  propositions or a system of propositions. It is rather a dialogic relationship to God. When  this dialogic relationship is broken man ceases to fulfill the purpose and destiny that God  intended for him. This is the fall of man – the failure to hear and obey the creator. This is  what Fox calls “the fall from the truth” and to his opponents he declares: “To the witness of God in you all, I speak; that you may see your fall from the truth, out of the prophets’ life,  Christ’s life, and the apostles’ life; so you are out of the commands, and fallen from  God . . . ” Truth is experienced as the voice of the creator whose word must be obeyed and  so it is natural for Fox to speak of hearing truth’s voice and obeying the truth. Truth comes  by obedience in righteousness and therefore the wisdom of “Friends in the Truth” is not the  wisdom of the wise but the wisdom of the just.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIn this essay, Benson discusses the following topics: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e Fox’s Conception of Truth \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e Man Realizes His Manhood \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e Walking in the Truth \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e “Be Valiant for God’s Truth...” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Foundation Publications NF","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43287937253625,"sku":"","price":1.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0663\/6706\/2265\/products\/friends-and-the-truth-cover.jpg?v=1663376873"},{"product_id":"rediscovering-the-teaching-of-george-fox","title":"Rediscovering the Teaching of George Fox","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Lewis Benson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8.5\" x 11\" Downloadable PDF\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDescription: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eWhen you look at the voluminous writings of George Fox, published and unpublished, you might be tempted to wonder, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ewhere do I start\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e? There is an answer to that question: “Start Here.” These 10  lectures constitute a survey course of what Fox had to say to the world. In these lectures, Lewis Benson covered the following topics: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e THE PLACE OF GEORGE FOX IN CHRISTIAN HISTORY  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL PREACHED BY GEORGE FOX  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e THE RELATION OF FOX’S MESSAGE TO THE BIBLE \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e THE NEW WORSHIP \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e THE NEW CHURCH ORDER \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e THE NEW MINISTRY \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e THE NEW RIGHTEOUSNESS \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e RESTORING THE CHURCH OF THE CROSS  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e FOX’S TEACHING ON THE HOLY SPIRIT \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e THE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSALISM OF GEORGE FOX \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIn lecture one, Lewis stated: “As we have come to understand Fox’s message, we have come to regard  it as much more than a variant on themes derived from the Reformation of the sixteenth century, or  from Roman Catholicism, or from the Christianity of Puritan England. Fox was making a new  beginning from a new starting point. He claimed that he was preaching a gospel that had gone into  eclipse since the apostolic age.” What is that gospel? \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIn lecture two, Lewis stated: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"I will try to summarize what I believe to the heart of Fox’s message:  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eFirst, it is a proclamation that Christ is alive, and that he is present in the midst of all  who gather together in his name.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eSecond, the living Christ is present in our midst in a functional way. As our living  shepherd he feeds us, as our living bishop he oversees us, as our living prophet and teacher  he teaches us God’s righteousness, as our living king he rules and governs us, and as our  living priest he intercedes for us and forgives us.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThese functions or offices of Christ are the central theme of Fox’s gospel ministry. The  purpose of this ministry was to turn people to Christ. And when we turn to Christ and come  to know him in personal encounter, he becomes our shepherd, our teacher, our counsellor  and leader and guide. We know him by what he does.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThis is the message that caused many thousands to begin to gather in the name of Jesus  in order to come to know him in all his offices.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIn its shortest form, this gospel was sometimes reduced to just eight words: “Christ has  come to teach his people himself.”  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe effect of these lectures is to bring us to the conviction that there yet remains a might work of  God to be done in the world today.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Foundation Publications NF","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43287938138361,"sku":"","price":1.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0663\/6706\/2265\/products\/rediscovering-the-teaching-of-george-fox-cover.jpg?v=1663376967"},{"product_id":"the-antipathy-between-prophecy-and-religion","title":"The Antipathy Between Prophecy and Religion","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Lewis Benson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8.5\" x 11\" Downloadable PDF\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDescription: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThis essay lays the groundwork for many of Lewis Benson’s lectures. In his introduction to this work,  he states: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"When prophecy becomes an object of study for the historian, sociologist, or philosopher it is usually seen as a particular manifestation of a universal phenomenon—religion. Thus the faiths with a prophetic character come to be regarded as a species of the genus “religion”  and it then becomes possible to speak of the “prophetic element in religion” and to contrast  “prophetic religion” with other types of “religion”. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eBut prophecy does not understand itself in these terms. It does not regard itself as the species of a genus. It does not wait for the scientist of religion to classify it and tell it where it belongs in the family of religions. From a position within the prophetic ethos, religion does not appear as the overarching universal phenomenon of which prophecy is a  particular type. Instead, religion appears as something that stands over against faith in the word of the speaking God as a competitor with that faith. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIt is my aim to present the thesis that prophecy and religion are antipathetical and that  Christianity must be understood in the context of that antipathy.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eBenson takes up the following subjects: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e The Old Covenant And Religion \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e The New Covenant And Religion \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e The Question of Typology \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e The New Covenant And History\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Foundation Publications NF","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43287938990329,"sku":"","price":1.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0663\/6706\/2265\/products\/the-antipathy-between-prophecy-and-religion-cover.jpg?v=1663377025"},{"product_id":"the-concern-of-the-new-foundation-movement","title":"The Concern of the New Foundation Movement","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Lewis Benson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8.5\" x 11\" Downloadable PDF\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDescription: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThere is a gospel that brings life: all others do not. By making such a statement are we being exclusive? In this tract, Lewis Benson undertakes to point out the distinctive properties of the gospel preached by  George Fox and why the people who receive that message come into the life of Christ, today just as in the 17\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eth\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ecentury. Benson wrote: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"Workers in the New Foundation Movement have learned to avoid using the word gospel in publicity announcing their meetings. Many potential attenders of these meetings think of the word gospel as having a meaning that is forever fixed and defined by the way it is used by evangelical Protestants. There are famous preachers in the world today who are preaching that Christ has the power to forgive us and pardon us for offenses against God and humans. He has the power to remove the burden of guilt for sin and to promise the believer a better hope for a future existence after death. He will do all this for all who accept him as their personal savior.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eGeorge Fox preached a different gospel. He claimed that churches of his day were preaching a Christ who could save us in our sins but not from our sins. He maintained that  Christ is able not only to forgive but also to deliver us from captivity to sin and enable us to gain the victory over the evil in our lives, and give us the power to resist temptation. Fox also saw that the church is, or should be, a community of disciples who are taught by Christ and who learn together, obey together, and suffer together. This community is brought into existence by the preaching of the everlasting gospel. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eAt the heart of this everlasting gospel is the proclamation that Christ is alive and actively present in the midst of his people. The purpose of this kind of gospel preaching is to cause people to experience a  personal encounter with the living Christ….This living Christ, who is present in the midst of his people, is present in a functional way; that is, he leads his people, he teaches his people, he orders and governs his people. 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I hope we do none of us like it\u003c\/i\u003e.” A modern reader of Stephen Crisp’s 1691 sermon, “The Kingdom of God Within,” reports having his heart penetrated by these words when, enraged by the evil deeds of his secular government, he’d at first imagined calling it satanic, but then realized that Crisp was pointing not to any outward satanic government, but the inward one that kept us all dancing around like puppets, playing on our fears, lusts and passions — passions like the rage that was then directing his anger toward the secular government!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCrisp’s next words were confessional: “It was so with me.” This humility and candor charmed our modern reader, making him eager to hear whatever else Crisp might have to say. Stephen Crisp (c. 1628-1692) likewise charmed an anonymous non-Quaker contemporary, who followed him about London during the last five years of his life, keeping a stenographic record of his sermons at Quaker meeting houses, of which these thirty-two were published in 1694. Reprints followed, such as the 1787 Philadelphia publication \u003ci\u003eScriptural Truths Demonstrated, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich modern Quaker author David Johnson (\u003ci\u003eA Quaker Prayer Life, \u003c\/i\u003e2013; \u003ci\u003eJesus, Christ and Servant of God: Meditations of the Gospel According to John\u003c\/i\u003e, 2017; \u003ci\u003eThe Workings of the Spirit of God Within: The Offices of Christ, \u003c\/i\u003e2019;\u003ci\u003e Surrendering into Silence: Quaker Prayer Cycles, \u003c\/i\u003e2020) has edited for modern readers, adding scriptural citations. 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That seems to be the appropriate question that you, the potential reader would care to know before committing yourself to downloading and reading. Don’t be put off by the word ”lectures.” This material is neither dull nor boring. Lewis Benson covered the following topics:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Universal Character of Christianity.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Universal Gospel Preached by the Apostles.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Universal Gospel Preached by the Early Quakers.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Gospel Preached by John Wesley and its Echos in Modern Christianity.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe New Foundation Movement: Its Universal Gospel Message and\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMission.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou will notice the prevalence of Lewis’ insistence on the universality of the message proclaimed by the Apostles and again by the early Quakers. This message was and yet is THE good news for all mankind, everywhere, and of all times. Modern interpreters of the early Quaker movement will recognize that \u003cem\u003ethey believed\u003c\/em\u003e that Jesus Christ had given them this universal message to preach and had commanded them to go forth to all nations. It is entirely different to come to the understanding that Jesus Christ did give them this message and this commission.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen you come to this understanding–the difference between “they believed . . . ” and “\u003cstrong\u003ethis\u003c\/strong\u003e is the universal gospel, delivered by Jesus Christ to be preached to the world”–then you have to ask what is the source of all these other gospels? The adherents of all these other gospels stand in as much need to hear this universal gospel as do those who are outside Christendom. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo quotes from these pages suffice to give you a taste of what Lewis\u003cbr\u003eBenson is offering to any who will read through these pages:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003eWhat did George Fox actually say when he preached the gospel message to groups of non-Quakers for the first time? It is not a complicated message. It is, first of all, a proclamation that Jesus Christ is alive and that he can be known as a living reality as he is present in the midst of all who gather together in his name . . . He is present in a functional way. \u003cstrong\u003eWe can know who he is by what he does when he is present in our midst.\u003c\/strong\u003e (pp. 30-31) [Emphasis added]\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003eThese three collaborators [Joseph Pickvance, John Curtis, and Lewis Benson] had spent a considerable time studying early Quaker writings and especially the writings of George Fox. We were all Quakers who were not satisfied with the kind of answers we were getting from the Society of Friends as to the content of the Quaker message and the nature of the Quaker society. We discovered that there was a whole universe of Christian thought and experience in the writings of George Fox that had not survived in any living Quaker tradition and we became convinced that what was most needed in the Society today could be supplied by Fox's Christian message. (p.52)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A whole universe of Christian thought and experience in the writings of George Fox” not extant in any living Quaker tradition. A Christ who is to be known “by what he does when he is present in our midst.” This is what I hungered for when first encountering the message of early Friends. 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Benson’s comments are as compelling in 2023 as they were in 1959 when this lecture was given at Pendle Hill.\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eThis lecture was divided into three parts:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. the universal prophetic understanding of salvation history as recorded in the Bible and understood by George Fox and the early Quakers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. the mystical-philosophical understanding of Christianity as one of the religions of the world\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3. the basic shift in understanding the three phrases most commonly used by Friends today when speaking of their faith: universal grace, that of God in every man, and the light that lighteth every man\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn part one Benson gave the foundation of Christianity’s claim that Jesus Christ is God’s answer to man’s problems: Christian universalism begins with God’s promise to Abraham: “ . . . in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed,” (Acts 3:25). Benson pointed out:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003eThe relation of the light to the enlightened is the relation of a speaker to a hearer. It is a relationship in which the speaker commands and the hearer obeys. This light, says Fox, “will lead you to obey a command within you.” Coming into obedience to the light brings with it the knowledge that the universal and saving light comes from Jesus Christ, the fulfiller of the promises and prophecies.\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eAfter explaining the Christian universalism of George Fox, giving many examples from his writings, Benson launched into the mystical-philosophical universalism that has appeared in the 20th century. He expained:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003eThere has arisen in the 20th century another type of Quaker universalism than that which has been attributed to Fox. It is based on the premise that the religions of the East, which are based on thoroughgoing philosophical systems, are not essentially different from the philosophical interpretations of Christianity based on Platonism. Christian Platonism and classical Christian mysticism are practically identical because it is mainly through the impact of Greek thought on the Christian revelation that we have what is known in history as Christian mysticism. The assertion that Quakerism can be classified as a mystical religion is usually made on the assumption that the essential elements of Quakerism are consistently in harmony with Christian Platonism. Mysticism is thus believed to be the universal religion, whether it be Christian, Hindu, Taoist, Islamic, or Buddhist. Therefore, Quakerism, understood as mysticism, is the Christian version of a universal religion, and from this point of view the Eternal Christ, Brahman, the Dharmakaya, or the Tao are all symbols for the same spiritual reality as it is found in the metaphysical systems of Christian Platonism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism.\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eThe idea, then, is that we can take all these philosophical systems, strip them of their historical trappings, and distill out the common, essential elements. Doing so you will have an eternal gospel, a universal gospel, that can appeal to all people of the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe question then comes: “Can you strip Christianity of its historical content without stripping away all that is relevant?”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis brings us to part three of Benson’s lecture: Understanding ‘Universal Grace’, ‘That of God In Every Man’, and ‘The Light That Lighteth Every Man’.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first phrase, ‘universal grace’, is a concept that comes from Titus 2:11-14.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003eFor the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eBenson wrote:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003eWe know, of course, that the early Quakers protested against the Calvinistic doctrine of ‘limited grace’ in which it is asserted that God bestows his grace on some and withholds it from others. “No,” said the Quakers, “the grace of God that bringeth salvation has appeared to all men.” To the 20th century Quaker mind, this seems to mean that ‘universal grace’ is a human capacity with which all mankind is naturally endowed. It has been defined in our day as “the effective power freely granted by God to every man to resist evil and do good.” From this modern viewpoint it can be stated that “Grace no more needs a special channel than dew does.” There can be no doubt at all that early Friends maintained that there is universal grace, but it is certainly open to question that they conceived of this grace as having a universality not dependent on the Christian revelation. The question must be asked: Does this universal grace come to all men as their natural endowment, or, is it to be understood in terms of God’s special and particular revelation in Jesus Christ? To the question: from whence comes this grace?, Fox answers that “this grace of God . . . comes by Jesus Christ, which hath appeared to all men, to teach them and bring their salvation . . . [that] by his grace which hath appeared to all men, they might receive his gospel, which was sent down from heaven.” I counted 160 occurances of the phrase ‘that of God’. Many of these deal with being in every person or a particular person. As seen from the examples Benson supplied, it is something that is spoken to, it is something that is answered, it is something that is transgressed, it is something within all that agrees with the word of the Lord spoken by the ministers of Christ.\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eConcerning the second phrase, Benson stated:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003ePerhaps the phrase which, more than any other, has come to serve as the prevailing term in modern Quaker universalism is: “that of God in every man.” In modern usage this term has been understood to be something which is “an inherent part of man’s being as man,” and as being the equivalent of the “Divine Spark” at the apex of the human soul which was so much spoken of “by the mystics of the Fourteenth century under the influence of Plotinus.” It has therefore become widely accepted in Quaker circles as a term that signifies the inherent divinity in all men. This phrase we owe primarily to George Fox. He used it, or variants of it, hundreds of times. It is, therefore, not unreasonable to suppose that through an analysis of these many references we can reach a fair understanding of what he meant by it. The experience of “that of God in every man” is an experience of God as he speaks to us through his son. Fox says, that “which answers that of God in every man, this is the Son of God . . . ” and “so every one that cometh into the world being enlightened, which hears not the light . . . he hears not the prophet, which Moses prophesied of. . . . ” Such, says Fox are those whose minds are “unestablished in the world” because “they go from that of God in them.” He claims that “that of God in every man” is a witness in man to that voice which is not his own voice and it testifies against the tendency to create an inner light metaphysic. “That which is of God in every man,” he says, “will not render the light, (when he cometh to it through the gospel) natural, . . . and that of God in man will not call Christ (the light) natural which the Quakers speak of.”\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eThe third phrase, ‘the light that lighteth every man’ is a phrase taken from John’s prologue. Benson supplied the following insights:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e“The light” is not part of the order of nature but it is to be understood in terms of God’s redemptive act in sending his Son into the world. To the Emperor of China, Fox wrote: “. . . the true light which doth enlighten every man that cometh into the world . . . is Christ the Son of God. . . . ” An encounter with “the light” is an encounter with “the redeemer.” He says: “the light, Christ Jesus . . . redeems out of transgression . . . death, darkness, and sin . . . ” and he says that “they that believe in the light have the witness in themselves that he is their redeemer.” “The light” is to be understood as belonging to what God has done for us as our redeemer. The way of redemption is God’s way and we owe our redemption to him as we owe our very life to him.\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003eThe Christian conception of redemption is incompatible with all schemes of spiritual self-culture. Man cannot solve his basic human problem by controlling and exploiting the forces of the spirit in the same way that he deals with his environment by controlling and exploiting the forces of nature. Redemption is in God’s hands. In love and mercy and grace he comes to all men with the free gift of redemption which is Jesus Christ.\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eBenson sums up the message of this lecture saying:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e[Quoting Fox] “And this is my message to you all: That God who was the first teacher and speaker to Adam and Eve in Paradise, and who was the speaker and teacher to the apostles and church in primitive times, is now come to teach his people himself by his Son if ye will hear him . . . ” “ . . . keep over that spirit,” he exhorts, “that . . . would draw you from your habitation and possession . . . it is the same spirit by . . . which (Adam and Eve) lost their habitation . . . Stand up for your liberty in the gospel and in the Faith, which Christ hath been the author of, for if you lose it, and let another spirit get over you, you will not soon regain it.”\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003eIf Babel is the community that symbolizes confusion and failure to communicate, then Pentecost is the symbol of that community in which differences are resolved by the rushing in of a new spirit. This is the spirit that Christ and his Father promised and Christ and his Father sent. It is a spirit that leads us to Christ and testifies to him. “By which spirit,” says Fox, “the believers are baptized into one body, brought out of the many bodies, and so by the spirit they are brought to the one head, which is Christ.” “ . . . for there is the unity and out of it is the confusion.” “The unity of this Holy Spirit is the bond of peace of all the living members of Christ Jesus, of which he is the spiritual Head, Rock, and Foundation.”\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003eIn this age of confusion, our only hope lies in rebuilding again with the rejected stone. 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