It seems really promising at first glance especially the article "The Early Quaker Movement: Pauline Christianity Revived" is very interesting. A quote:
"Spiritual Death and New Birth
“May I never boast of anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.” (Galatians 6:14) “So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new!” (2 Corinthians 5:17)
The apostle Paul describes the cross as the transformative power of God which, through an inward and spiritual process of crucifixion and resurrection, could put to death the evil and darkness in each human heart and give birth to a new life in harmony with God, with other human beings and with the rest of creation. Early Friends interpreted their life-changing convincement experiences in these terms. What Jesus had been through in the flesh in the old covenant, all people could now experience inwardly, and spiritually in the new covenant. In this sense, the early Quaker movement was very much a ‘born-again’ movement."
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