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Beanite Quakerism

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65:, and started a meeting there; still not wanting to break fellowship with their Yearly Meeting, they retained their membership and formed the meeting under the care of Iowa Yearly Meeting. But IYM sent two revivalist ministers to California after them, who caused a split in the meeting. The Beans and their supporters withdrew again to form another meeting, in a building they built themselves, and again applied for recognition by IYM. But IYM officially disbanded the Beans' meeting, after sending them a list of doctrinal questions to which the Beans' meeting did not give satisfactory answers, and over the next few years officially purged them as ministers and then as members. 46:(IYM) in the late 1850s. They had not intended to start a new tradition of Quakerism, but in the 1870s and 1880s, an evangelical "revival" movement spread to Iowa Quakers, who by degrees abandoned traditional Quaker beliefs and practices in favor of more 54:
ones. The Beans eventually became alarmed by this phenomenon, and argued against it, but they preferred to work within IYM rather than splitting off as other Quakers did (forming
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Being forced by IYM to be on their own, the Beans thus became innovators. In 1889 they reorganized their local meeting as the
58:). But the new revivalist majority in IYM continued to press them, finally denouncing their views in the 1881 yearly session. 69: 20: 93: 97: 89: 81: 77: 100:
as the only remaining unaffiliated Yearly Meeting in the west. The three meetings jointly publish the magazine
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in the late 19th century, and in a more specific sense refers to the three Western
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Western Friend: – Official publication of the Beanite Quaker Yearly Meetings
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The Beans were originally from New Hampshire, but moved to
153: 147: 8: 122:"Joel & Hannah Bean – Reluctant Rebels" 112: 19:refers to the independent tradition of 7: 70:College Park Association of Friends 14: 35:that spring from that tradition. 175:Quakerism in the United States 1: 154:Intermountain Yearly Meeting 148:North Pacific Yearly Meeting 98:North Pacific Yearly Meeting 90:Intermountain Yearly Meeting 82:Intermountain Yearly Meeting 78:North Pacific Yearly Meeting 23:started by Quaker ministers 61:The Beans shortly moved to 191: 94:Friends General Conference 27:and Hannah Bean in the 142:Pacific Yearly Meeting 86:Pacific Yearly Meeting 74:Pacific Yearly Meeting 29:western United States 63:San Jose, California 56:Conservative Friends 44:Iowa Yearly Meeting 156:(Official Website) 150:(Official Website) 144:(Official Website) 17:Beanite Quakerism 182: 130: 129: 117: 190: 189: 185: 184: 183: 181: 180: 179: 165: 164: 138: 133: 119: 118: 114: 110: 42:and joined the 33:yearly meetings 12: 11: 5: 188: 186: 178: 177: 167: 166: 163: 162: 157: 151: 145: 137: 136:External links 134: 132: 131: 120:Fager, Chuck. 111: 109: 106: 102:Western Friend 13: 10: 9: 6: 4: 3: 2: 187: 176: 173: 172: 170: 161: 158: 155: 152: 149: 146: 143: 140: 139: 135: 127: 123: 116: 113: 107: 105: 103: 99: 95: 91: 87: 83: 79: 75: 71: 66: 64: 59: 57: 53: 49: 45: 41: 36: 34: 30: 26: 22: 18: 125: 115: 101: 67: 60: 37: 16: 15: 84:Eventually 48:charismatic 126:quaker.org 108:References 52:Protestant 21:Quakerism 169:Category 96:leaving 92:joined 80:, and 88:and 40:Iowa 25:Joel 171:: 124:. 104:. 76:, 50:, 128:.

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Quakerism
Joel
western United States
yearly meetings
Iowa
Iowa Yearly Meeting
charismatic
Protestant
Conservative Friends
San Jose, California
College Park Association of Friends
Pacific Yearly Meeting
North Pacific Yearly Meeting
Intermountain Yearly Meeting
Pacific Yearly Meeting
Intermountain Yearly Meeting
Friends General Conference
North Pacific Yearly Meeting
"Joel & Hannah Bean – Reluctant Rebels"
Pacific Yearly Meeting
North Pacific Yearly Meeting
Intermountain Yearly Meeting
Western Friend: – Official publication of the Beanite Quaker Yearly Meetings
Category
Quakerism in the United States

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