George Fox's Legacy: Friends For 350 Years

George Fox's Legacy: Friends For 350 Years This book is a compilation of writings from a 2002 conference to commemorate and analyze the the impact of George Fox and early Quakers upon later generations of Friends. In his own time, Fox was a controversial figure, and his example and legacy continue to be debated within and among the various branches of Quakerism and by scholars of religion and British history.  Contents: Dedication - Mary Ellen ChijiokeGeneral Introduction - J. William Frost George Fox and William Penn: Their Relationship and Their Roles within the Quaker Movement - Melvin Eddy Liberal Friends (Re)Discover Fox - Chuck Fager "New Light on Old Ways": Gurneyites, Wilburites, and the Early Friends -Thomas Hamm The Search for Seventeenth-Century Authority during the Hicksite Reformation - H. Larry Ingle Early Friends and the Renewal of British Quakerism, 1890-1920 - Thomas Kennedy Isaac Penington and the Authority of George Fox - Rosemary Moore "Come in at the Door!" How Fo