First among Friends: George Fox and the Creation of Quakerism
First among Friends: George Fox and the Creation of Quakerism
Oxford University Press | January 4, 1996 | ISBN-10: 0195101170 | 424 pages | PDF | 25.79 MB
Oxford University Press | January 4, 1996 | ISBN-10: 0195101170 | 424 pages | PDF | 25.79 MB
In First Among Friends, the first scholarly biography of George Fox (1624-91), H. Larry Ingle examines the fascinating life of the reformation leader and founding organizer of the Religious Society of Friends, more popularly known today as the Quakers.
Ingle places Fox within the upheavals of the English Civil Wars, Revolution, and Restoration, showing him and his band of "rude" disciples challenging the status quo, particularly during the Cromwellian Interregnum. Unlike leaders of similar groups, Fox responded to the conservatism of the Stuart restoration by facing down challenges from internal dissidents, and leading his followers to persevere until the 1689 Act of Toleration. It was this same sense of perseverance that helped the Quakers to survive and remain the only religious sect of the era still existing today.