Are quakers protestant?
Answer – Quakers do not practice water baptism or holy communion. We consider the pouring of water or the eating of bread to be outward symbols. The real sacraments are inner spiritual realities and the outward symbols used by other churches are dispensed with as a distraction from that reality. Most people would consider Quakers as a branch of Protestantism. Some Quakers consider Quakerism to be its own branch of Christianity seperate from both Catholicism and Protestantism. My own view is that while there is much that is distinctive about Quakerism it is best viewed as a Protestant denomination. Answer – Concerning Protestant denominations you need to bear in mind just how different these are from each other. Roughly speaking American Protestants can be divided into conservatives (“fundamentalist” “evangelical” etc.) and liberals (“mainline churches”). Theologically Quakers are rather similar to the mainline Protestant churches only more liberal. For example Quakers have recorded wom
