The Mysticism Of George Fox The Founder Of Quakerism

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Excerpt from The Founder of Quakerism: A Psychological Study of the Mysticism of George Fox The problems of religion have been persistent problems to me. To study religion best I believe we must turn for our material to those for whom religion is real and vital and constitutes wellnigh the whole of their lives. George Fox had long interested me as a picturesque character and as the founder of a religion of life. Ever since one summer day in 1912 when I had fingered through the original manuscript of his Journal in the Library at Devonshire House in London, chancing on one interesting episode after another that made him a real and living personality to me, I had wanted to know him better and understand the source of his power and personality. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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This study is a discussion about Fox's meaning of the inner light. It argues that Fox's inner light was the celestial Christ who inhabited and divinized the believer. Fox argued for a celestial inhabitation of the believer that was almost corporeal. This helps explain Fox's thaumaturgical powers; the exalted language used among early Quakers, especially toward Fox; and the blasphemy trials and the Nayler incident. These belong at the very centre of early Quakerism, and are the logical result of the core elements of Fox's teaching. His notion of celestial flesh was one of the greatest challenges to Christian orthodoxy to appear in Christian history and it may be compared to Jesus' own challenge to Orthodox Judaism or the appearance of the high heresies of the 2nd and 3rd centuries after Jesus. Early Quakerism, as a result, was the most charismatic sect to appear since the days of the early Church, or at least since the era of Montanism.