Elizabeth Ashbridge and Spiritual Autobiography: The Old Awakened in the New

In Jon R. Kershner (ed.), Quakers and Mysticism: Comparative and Syncretic Approaches to Spirituality. Springer Verlag. pp. 101-119 (2019)
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Abstract

Elizabeth Ashbridge, always an outsider in search of a spiritual home, recorded a quite unconventional spiritual autobiography for eighteenth-century Friends. Untrained by the Quakers’ codes of Quietism, she bypassed cultural conditioning and revived the primitive Christianity of earliest Friends. Her syncretic religious experience—reaching back to seventeenth-century practices in order to infuse Light and enthusiasm into eighteenth-century ministry—awakens the old in the new. As a Spiritual Mother and a Public Friend, she inscribes her autobiography of suffering and omits her narrative of affluence, ultimately leaving her literary legacy of spiritual reform and mystical renewal for succeeding generations.

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