First among Friends: George Fox and the Creation of QuakerismIn 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. This insightful study uses broad research in contemporary manuscripts and pamphlets, many never examined systematically before. Firmly grounded in primary sources and enriched with gripping detail, this well-written and original study reveals unknown sides of one who was clearly "First Among Friends." |
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| 7 | |
2 Lads Will Be Men | 18 |
3 The Longest Way About Is the Nearest Way Home | 28 |
4 Seek Your Salve Where You Get Your Sore | 41 |
5 When the Fox Preaches then Beware Your Geese | 54 |
6 The North for Greatness | 72 |
7 Put Not Fire to Flax | 90 |
12 As Easy as Removing Tottenham Wood | 170 |
13 For the Same Man to Be a Heretic and a Good Subject is Impossible | 189 |
14 More Belongs to a Marriage than Four Bare Legs in a Bed | 207 |
15 What Is a Man but His Mind? | 229 |
16 A Man May Cut Himself with His Own Knife | 250 |
17 The Fox Runs as Long as He Has Feet | 266 |
A Good Life Makes a Good Death | 283 |
Notes | 287 |
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