In this first scholarly biography of George Fox (1624-91), 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.
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he [fox] hoped that ... the spirit of Christ he preached so consistently would call people to a new but different order, one in which the divine spirit sparked ordinary people to revitalize primitive Christianity ... this goal, needless to say, turned out to be an illusion. In truth, he and his movement were too much products of their age, riding the stream of history to the uncertain sea called the future. (查看原文)
his [fox] message had to be different enough to distinguish it from what of others, else no one, then or now, would be especially interested in him or it. to be a successful religious reformer one must be in, but not wholly of, one's culture. (查看原文)
还没人写过短评呢
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