First Among Friends: George Fox and the Creation of Quakerism

by H. Larry Ingle

Book Overview

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 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195101170
• ISBN13: 9780195101171
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"