... Elizabeth Barnard Hannah Bugg Francis Nayler James Allen William Clarkson Thomas Hall Joseph Abolitionism Bezenet Anthony Wilberforce William Woolman John Education Schools Bedford Peter Fothergill Thomas affirmation crisis Darbys of Coalbrookdale George Fox Elizabeth Fry marriage moral...

...Quakerism originated during the civil wars of the mid-seventeenth century, a time of religious as well as political turmoil. The Quaker leader, George Fox, found many adherents in the north of the country during 1651–2, including James Nayler, the Quakers’ most effective publicist, and Margaret...

...Early in the nineteenth century, British Quakers broke through a century-long hedge of Quietism which had gripped their Religious Society since the death of their founding prophet, George Fox. After 1800, the majority of Friends in England and Ireland gradually embraced the evangelical revival...

...Rhode Island was a sanctuary for Quakers and others because of its freedom from civil enforcement of religion and its tradition of religious liberty. In 1672, a group of English Quakers including one of the founders of Quakerism, George Fox, visited Rhode Island. Fox preached and organized...

... publication New Model Army exile Quakers English Revolution radicalism George Fox James Nayler Of all the new religious movements that emerged during the English Revolution of 1641–60 the Quakers were the largest, most successful and enduring. Barry Reay, for example, estimated that by the early 1660s...

...This chapter concentrates on the Quaker experience in seventeenth-century Barbados, beginning with a detailed examination of George Fox's 1657 letter. The sections presented here chart his later writings on slavery during and after his visit to Barbados, paying specific attention both...

...Turning more directly to the pivotal figure of George Fox himself, this chapter suggests that the foundational dissolution of boundaries between human and divine established in the earlier chapters generated access to a quality in Fox and other early Friends characterised by Thomas Carlyle...

... perspective on this most enduring of radical religious groups, it combines literary and historical approaches to produce a fresh study of Quaker cultural practice. Close readings of George Fox's Journal are put in dialogue with the voices of other early Friends and their critics to argue that the ‘light...

... St Thomas Aquinas Karl Barth Christian Christianity church George Fox John Paul II Martin Luther Second Vatican Council Council of Vienne John Wesley In purely human terms, Christianity’s achievement is remarkable. It has endured longer than the greatest empires and had more influence than...

... Robert landscape descriptions of soteriology Traherne Thomas Vaughan Henry Cole Mary Cotton Priscilla seed of the woman and seed of the serpent Stallybrass Peter Holmes Oliver Wendell Journal George Fox journeys Quaker ministry itinerant ministry Calvin, while condemning journeys to holy...

... like George Fox and Dury expressed sharply anti–Jewish attitudes, showing the limits of toleration. Cromwell Oliver Jews Katz David S nation the early modern English Shapiro James vi toleration Whitehall Conference Amsterdam Chmielniki massacres Christ Comenius John Amos Dury John Hartlib...

...2008 The founding ideas of the movement are explored in ‘Who are the Quakers?’ which then briefly delineates the types of Quaker found today. The beliefs of George Fox and his followers were foundational: the necessity for a direct experience of God; rejection of churches and sacraments; belief...

... Conservative Quakerism Jones Rufus Rowntree John Wilhelm Whittier John Greenleaf Liberal Quakerism business method Robert Barclay belief Christianity George Fox William Penn Second Coming John Greenleaf Whittier As mentioned in Chapter 1 , one of the ways to understand Quaker diversity is to see...

... Liberal Quakerism non realism realism revelation business method Christianity covenant faith George Fox language ministry realism revelation Seekers theology This chapter considers the very distinctive approach Quakers have traditionally taken regarding language and how it has been adapted...

... of George Fox. He urged the creation of a network of particular, monthly, and quarterly meetings in the late 1660s. The consensus among historians is that the main aim of Quaker discipline was to maintain the reputation of the Society. Penn William discipline Perrot John Anthony Isaac Coggeshall Great...

... to remodel the English language after the lingua humana spoken by Adam and Eve in Eden. This transatlantic program of linguistic innovation inspired the singular Quaker grammar of thee and thou instituted by George Fox and employed by missionaries in New...

... prayer reductionism Tillich Paul Quakers Light Spirit fallibility Trinity George Fox Augustine Louf William Penn John Lampen Until recent paragraphs I have been reviewing various conceptions of God in a seemingly uncommitted philosophical manner, but I am well aware that on this subject...