Quakers Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Holiness=== {{See also|Central Yearly Meeting of Friends}} Holiness Friends are heavily influenced by the [[Holiness movement]], in particular [[John Wesley]]'s doctrine of [[Christian perfection]], also called "entire sanctification". This states that loving God and humanity totally, as exemplified by Christ, enables believers to rid themselves of voluntary sin. This was a dominant view within Quakerism in the United Kingdom and United States in the 19th century, and influenced other branches of Quakerism. Holiness Friends argue (leaning on writings that include George Fox's message of ''perfection'') that early Friends had this understanding of holiness.<ref name="central">{{Cite web |last=Central Yearly Meeting of Friends |title=About Us |url=http://www.centralyearlymeetingoffriends.org/AboutUs.dsp |access-date=6 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120205212906/http://www.centralyearlymeetingoffriends.org/AboutUs.dsp |archive-date=5 February 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Today, some Friends hold holiness beliefs within most yearly meetings, but it is the predominant theological view of [[Central Yearly Meeting of Friends]], (founded in 1926 specifically to promote holiness theology) and the Holiness Mission of the Bolivian Evangelical Friends Church (founded by missionaries from that meeting in 1919, the largest group of Friends in Bolivia).<ref>{{Cite book |author1=Margery Post Abbott |display-authors=etal |title=Historical Dictionary of the Friends (Quakers) |date=December 2011 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |location=Lanham, MD |isbn=978-0-8108-7088-8 |pages=327β328 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WlTnzA6kHYwC&q=Bolivian+Holiness+Mission+Evangelical+Friends+Church&pg=PA328 |edition=2nd}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page