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 Interregnum. Unlike leaders of similar groups, Fox responded to the conservatism of the Stuart restoration by facing down challenges from internal dissidents, and leading his followers to persevere until the 1689 Act of Toleration. It was this same sense of perseverance that helped the Quakers survive--the only religious sect of the era still existing today. Firmly grounded in primary sources and enriched with gripping detail, this well-written and original study reveals hitherto unknown sides of one who was clearly "First Among Friends."

First Among Friends: George Fox and the Creation of Quakerism

Business & Money

Ingle, H. Larry

International

Oxford University Press

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 Interregnum. Unlike leaders of similar groups, Fox responded to the conservatism of the Stuart restoration by facing down challenges from internal dissidents, and leading his followers to persevere until the 1689 Act of Toleration. It was this same sense of perseverance that helped the Quakers to survive and remain the only religious sect of the era still existing today. This insightful study uses broad research in contemporary manuscripts and pamphlets, many never examined systematically before. Firmly grounded in primary sources and enriched with gripping detail, this well-written and original study reveals unknown sides of one who was clearly "First Among Friends."

First among Friends: George Fox and the Creation of Quakerism

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Book by Ingle, H. Larry, Ward, James Arthur, Scott, William B.

America: The Endless Quest

History

Scott, William B.

Ward, James Arthur

Americas

Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co.

Have you ever thought you completely knew a story, inside and out, only to see some new information that shatters what you had come to accept as unquestioned fact? Well, Richard Nixon is that story, and Nixon’s First Cover-up is that new information.With few exceptions, the religious ideologies and backgrounds of U.S. presidents is a topic sorely lacking in analysis. H. Larry Ingle seeks to remedy this situation regarding Nixon—one of the most controversial and intriguing of the presidents. Ingle delves more deeply into Nixon’s Quaker background than any previous scholar to observe the role Nixon’s religion played in his political career.Nixon’s unique and personally tailored brand of evangelical Quakerism stayed hidden when he wanted it to, but was on display whenever he felt it might help him advance his career in some way. Ingle’s unparalleled knowledge of Quakerism enables him to deftly point out how Nixon bent the traditional rules of the religion to suit his needs or, in some cases, simply ignored them entirely. This theme of the constant contradiction between Nixon’s actions and his apparent religious beliefs makes Nixon’s First Cover-up truly a groundbreaking study both in the field of Nixon research as well as the field of the influence of religion on the U.S. presidency. Forty years after Nixon’s resignation from office, Ingle’s work proves there remains much about the thirty-seventh president that the American public does not yet know.

Nixon's First Cover-up: The Religious Life of a Quaker President (Volume 1)

Leaders & Notable People

University of Missouri

Quakers are often very interesting people. And generations come and go.These are the modest theses behind this book. In fif-ty-plus years among The Religious Society of Friends (our rather pompous official name), its members, attenders, hang-ers-on and even antagonists, I have kept bumping into and hearing about interesting people. And many very interesting people.And having had what some call "a good run," my generation (beginning, as I did, in the depths of World War Two, and extending, with a stretch, to the early 1960s), is now on its way out."Generations come and go," is how the Preacher of the biblical book of Ecclesiastes (one of my favorites) dryly put it. And it's our turn. Then the Preacher rubs our noses in the fetid fact of evanescence: "in future generations no one will remember what we have done here."This last, I think, many of us don't yet believe. We've been told, from many quarters, for a long time, that ours was a critical, historic vanguard. More recent voices have condemned us as the phalanx of decadence, decay and disaster, which seem to be running amok in our culture as these pages take shape and the curtain began descending over us; but maybe that's just envy. We're also not the first ones to think we can escape this descent into the abyss of the forgotten. Indeed, attempts to defy this fate are among the oldest recorded human activities. Such efforts come in several forms, prominently monuments, stories, and books or other writings.Of these, stories are the most weightless, typically composed and carried in memory and words. Yet they are the most durable; though they too can die. The biblical Exodus saga is one of the oldest such stories, at least in the Jewish-Christian world. The retelling of key passages at annual Seders includes elements that are likely 3,000 years old or more. And that ritual story's role in the persistence of Jewish culture and religion is inarguable.Have we, today's elder (mainly American) Quakers done anything to elbow our way into the species memory? Usually this query is rhetorical, a set-up for some ambitious, maybe even landmark argument, which favorable critics will be tempted to call "bold" or "ground-breaking."This urge to grandiosity is one I am firmly resolved to resist. Here there is no carefully representative group, honed to tick all the boxes. Nor is it a manifesto or jeremiad.Instead, I wrote to some interesting people, a varied bunch of a certain age and (mostly) retired, who are Quakers, and invited them to tell their stories, and offer some sum-mary counsel, what we call Advices, to those coming up. I've dropped a few hints of my own, I hope sparingly enough to be palatable.We're a motley crew, few were famous, but they are varied and all have done interesting things, which will make for some good reading. In these pages you will find Friends in the thick of wars, behind bars, facing dire disease, murder, resisting war taxes, raising families, coping with loss, and -- since all are Americans - facing racism and prejudice in many forms and some unexpected guises. Yet they also took time to settle in Friends worship and business, making their own diverse way amid its highs and lows.Our eleven lives are all now moving into the sunset. Among us are several centuries of Quaker experience and thought. It's a longstanding Quaker tradition that, whatever we say or write, it is above all our lives that speak, across the world, and beyond our generation. That's what "Passing the Torch" tries to get at. What does it all add up to? As I said, good reading. otherwise, I'll leave that to others with more degrees; or defer to that ancient Preacher in Ecclesiastes: 8:16-17: Whenever I tried to become wise and learn what goes on in the world, I realized that you could stay awake night and day and never be able to under-stand what God is doing. However hard you try, you will never find out. The wise may claim to know, but they don't.

Passing the Torch: Quaker Elders & Their Lives Speak

Religion & Spirituality

Cobban, Helena

Lapsansky-Werner, Emma

Gwyn, Douglas

Fager, Chuck

Berntsen, Barbara

Nash, Carter

Zaremba, David

Rhys, Marian

McKinzie, Daiane Faison

Worship & Devotion

Independently published

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