New Light on George Fox and Early Quakerism: The Making and Unmaking of a God

by Richard Bailey

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 077349829X
• ISBN13: 9780773498297
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Mellen University Press
• Length: 340 Pages