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Emma Thomas (Quaker)
Emma Thomas (1872–1960) was an English schoolteacher and member of the Society of Friends. She taught in London County Council schools. She is best known for her later role in founding the International Fellowship School in Switzerland (1923–1936) for the Fellowship of Reconciliation, and her work in Perugia from the 1940s with Aldo Capitini. Early life She was the daughter of a master shoemaker, born 8 September 1872 in Lewisham, and trained as a schoolteacher at Stockwell College of Education. In 1905 she applied to study at the London School of Economics, graduating in 1909. She took an interest in the garden cities movement. In 1919 she was on the New Town Council. International Fellowship School In October 1921, Emma Thomas founded a school in Gland, Switzerland with the support of the Fellowship of Reconciliation in the United Kingdom. She had separate financial backing of £4,000 raised by Thomas William McCormack. McCormack (died 1932) was a Somerset House official and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Society Of Friends
Quakers are people who belong to the Religious Society of Friends, a historically Protestant Christian set of denominations. Members refer to each other as Friends after in the Bible, and originally, others referred to them as Quakers because the founder of the movement, George Fox, told a judge to "quake before the authority of God". The Friends are generally united by a belief in each human's ability to be guided by the inward light to "make the witness of God" known to everyone. Quakers have traditionally professed a priesthood of all believers inspired by the First Epistle of Peter. They include those with evangelical, holiness, liberal, and traditional Quaker understandings of Christianity, as well as Nontheist Quakers. To differing extents, the Friends avoid creeds and hierarchical structures. In 2017, there were an estimated 377,557 adult Quakers, 49% of them in Africa followed by 22% in North America. Some 89% of Quakers worldwide belong to ''evangelical'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
