... and universalist-tending conception of the Light. The early Quaker view of the Trinity, according to Penn, was not Nicene but Sabellian. Organized in chronological fashion, the chapter emphasizes the diversity that developed in Quaker interpretations of the Light and Christ, from the nineteenth-century forwards...

...-embodiment allows him to function as omnipresent, whereas the physically embodied Father and Son cannot. In modern Mormonism, the Holy Ghost as a personage has increasingly been differentiated from the Light of Christ, now considered an innate faculty virtually indistinguishable from conscience. Athanasian...