Perfectionism, basic principle for decision-making and social-shaping : types of liberal Quakerism and problems of their decision-making and organization theories

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  • 合意形成および組織形成の基盤理論としての完全論 : 自由主義クエーカー思想の諸類型と合意形成論・組織論の問題点
  • ゴウイ ケイセイ オヨビ ソシキ ケイセイ ノ キバン リロン トシテノ カンゼンロン : ジユウ シュギ クエーカー シソウ ノ ショルイケイ ト ゴウイ ケイセイロン ソシキロン ノ モンダイテン
  • 合意形成および組織形成の基盤理論としての完全論 : 自由主義クエーカー思想の諸類型と合意形成論組織論の問題点

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This article aims to investigate diversified Liberal Quakerism, and to examine the decision-making styles in each type of Liberal Quakerism. Although Quakers diverged into three strains in the early 19th century, they all have held their silent meeting style up to today. They also have long had another tradition of business meeting and of its procedure of decision-making since the later 17th century. Simply speaking, Quakers pray for God in the style of silent meeting and talk with other attendants about the business agendas, opening themselves to different opinions to the last, so that they can exercise communal discernment and reach the unity. This article shows that there are some problems in the business style of Universalist-Liberal Quakerism, supported especially by Theory U. That is, Universalist-Liberal Quakerism has such a self-closed and self-contained structure that there would be an impossibility of dialogue in the business meetings.

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  • 基督教研究

    基督教研究 83 (1), 1-18, 2021-06-28

    Society for Christian Studies

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