George Fox the Younger
An early Quaker conservative
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22348245 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Euan Mcarthur (0000-0002-3945-294X, University of St Andrews, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2024-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Quaker Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1363-013X • E-ISSN: 2397-1770 |
| Publisher | Open Library of the Humanities (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.16995/qs.16585 |
| OpenAlex | W4409245831 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
Quakerism is conventionally viewed as a politically radical movement at its foundations. This thesis has been challenged recently, but the problem remains that early Quakers provided little justification for a politics comfortable with established social and political hierarchies. This article proposes that early Quakerism’s ‘incoherence’, a feature which intellectual historians are often alert to within political texts and movements, was patched up by the efforts of George Fox the Younger (d.1661), a previously little studied Friend. Scholars have often discounted or misinterpreted Fox’s work, but it can provide a key to understanding political boundaries which the movement respected in practice. This essay establishes his thought’s representative quality, despite the relative singularity of his voice. This may provide a hermeneutic for other studies of Quakerism and intellectual history; and some reflections upon Fox’s abiding normative importance are made
Art history · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Demography · History · Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |