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First among Friends: George Fox and the Creation of Quakerism

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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 these days as the Quakers.
Ingle places Fox inside the upheavals of the English Civil Wars, Revolution, and Restoration, showing him and his band of “rude” disciples challenging the established order, particularly throughout the Cromwellian Interregnum. Unlike leaders of equivalent 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 used to be this same sense of perseverance that helped the Quakers to live to tell the tale and remain the one religious sect of the era still existing these days.
This insightful study uses broad research in recent manuscripts and pamphlets, many never examined systematically before. Firmly grounded in number one sources and enriched with gripping detail, this well-written and original study reveals unknown sides of one who used to be clearly “First Among Friends.”

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