Radical
Religious Society of Friends
The body that answers the charismata question yes and builds no practice on it whatever — which is the combination nothing else on this chart supplies.
In its own terms
What this body is doing
Barclay's Apology argues that immediate revelation by the Spirit is the ground of certainty, above scripture in the order of knowing though never contrary to it, and that the ministry belongs to whomever the Spirit moves in the meeting. On the axes this section uses, that puts the Friends at the far end of authority and at the open end of charismata simultaneously.
And then nothing follows for exorcism. There is no rite, no office and no deliverance practice, because a tradition whose worship is silence and whose ministry is unprogrammed has no form into which such a thing could be placed. That is a real answer rather than a gap, and it is the sharpest counter-example available to the assumption running through this whole branch — that a body which holds the Spirit speaks now will end up with a practice for casting out spirits.
Where it stands in the tree
Descent
Separated from
Church of England · 1652Immediate revelation. If the Spirit teaches the gathered meeting directly, then the ministry, the sacraments and the authority of a written formulary are all answerable to something prior to them.
The same questions asked of every body
What it holds
Are the gifts still given?
Described from a text the corpus holdsOpen. The Spirit teaches the meeting directly, and no class of gift is singled out.
Barclay's second and third propositions ground certainty in immediate revelation, without dividing the Spirit's work into a list of gifts that might cease or continue.
An Apology for the True Christian Divinity · 1676; English 1678
Who may act?
Inferred from the surrounding textsAnyone the Spirit moves in the meeting — and there is nothing to be moved to do.
Unprogrammed worship removes the office and the form together; the corpus records no Quaker practice of dispossession because the tradition provides no occasion for one.
What counts as evidence?
Not established here. Where a tradition decides it is dealing with a spirit rather than an illness, a grief, or nothing at all.
Where is the spirit?
Not established here. All four inherit gospel scenes in which spirits are in people. What each adds beyond that is the largest difference between them.
Whom do the words address?
Not established here. A formal difference a reader can check by counting clauses rather than by weighing tone.
What restraint is written in?
Not established here. Every one of these traditions knows the practice can harm. What each does about that is what popular accounts leave out.
What closes the matter?
Not established here. Whether the encounter ends, and who declares it, separates a rite from an ongoing practice.
This page records what a body holds and where that is written down. It takes no position on whether any of it is true, and nothing here is instruction — the rites are described by what they contain, never as something to follow.