George Fox, founder of the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers, was a significant figure in the history of the Radical Reformation. But he was also more. He sensed a need for, then captured in his movement, the sense of individual responsibility and initiative without which the newly emerging world of capitalism would have had tougher going. His concerns were primarily religious, but he also stressed the secular needs of those left behind by the changing social order. Hence achieving justice, social and economic, was always one of his major intentions, especially in the heady days of the English Revolution. Articulating the spirit of his age, Fox at his most creative pushed the accepted definitions of Christianity to stress new individualistic dimensions and inculcate them in his sect. [download]
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