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George Fox - An Autobiography
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George Fox was born in Fenny Drayton, Leicestershire, in 1624. Apprenticed to a Nottingham shoemaker, Fox developed strong opinions about religion. Fox rebelled against the state control of the Church of England and in 1643 began toured the country giving sermons where he argued that consecrated buildings and ordained ministers were irrelevant to the individual seeking God
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Paperback, 268 pages
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August 17th 2007
by NuVision Publications
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A good book if you are interested in history.
George Fox and the Quakers are fascinating. A must read if you like religious history.
This book was tedious to read. It is a travelogue without any description or dialogue...and not much expounding on any events in his life. A biography by someone else which went into particulars would be more interesting. This is more like journal notations at the end of the day that told about what happened in an abbreviated form.
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George Fox was an English Dissenter and a founder of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers or Friends.
The son of a Leicestershire weaver, Fox lived in a time of great social upheaval and war. He rebelled against the religious and political authorities by proposing an unusual and uncompromising approach to the Christian faith. He travelled throughout Britain as a dissentin ...more
The son of a Leicestershire weaver, Fox lived in a time of great social upheaval and war. He rebelled against the religious and political authorities by proposing an unusual and uncompromising approach to the Christian faith. He travelled throughout Britain as a dissentin ...more
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