Talk:Isaac Crewdson

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A fact from Isaac Crewdson appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 19 January 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Isaac Crewdson's book A Beacon to the Society of Friends triggered a split in the Quakers which was like a "volcanic explosion"?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2010/January.

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Nature of the controversy

The article does not explain what the controversy was about. Obviously, I am not familiar with the Beaconite Controversy, but it seems to have been about the Inner Light, and something called Justification by Faith. Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL should help. Abductive (reasoning) 18:37, 19 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]