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Durante su infancia, Fox tuvo una seria devoción religiosa. Su educación estaba basada en la fe y en la práctica de la iglesia de Inglaterra, de la que su familia era miembro; la iglesia de su pueblo era puritana y presbiteriana. No tuvo una educación formal, pero aprendió a leer y a escribir.
George Fox, English preacher and missionary and founder of the Society of Friends (or Quakers). His personal religious experience made him hostile to church conventions and established his reliance on what he saw as ‘inner light,’ or God-given inspiration over scriptural authority or creeds.
George Fox (July 1624 [2] – 13 January 1691) was an English Dissenter, who was a founder of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers or Friends. The son of a Leicestershire weaver, he lived in times of social upheaval and war.
6 de abr. de 2020 · George Fox is the 17th-century English preacher whose spiritual experiences led to the movement known today as the Religious Society of Friends or Quakers.
Se extendieron en Estados Unidos por obra de William Penn, especialmente en Pennsylvania. Su número queda muy reducido, comparado con otros grupos protestantes. Son esencialmente pacifistas, con costumbres severas y sencillas y fuerte exaltación religiosa.
Fox was thrown down church steps, beaten with sticks and once with a brass-bound Bible! He refused to be intimidated, and his courage and physical stamina gave credibility to a central theme of his preaching: the power through Christ to live a holy life.
1 de jun. de 2023 · In any case, Fox is a larger than life figure, a guy about whom songs have been written, who built a religion that by the time of his death had spread to multiple continents and had some 100,000 adherence, yet he hardly had any education. He was jailed repeatedly, and he was a strange guy. Georgia Sparling.
