Society of Friends
History of the Society of Friends
        The Society of Friends (more commonly known as the quakers ) was founded in the 1650s by George Fox, an English nonconformist religious reformer. Born 107 age after Martin Luther sparked the Protestant Reformation, Foxs religious upbringing was shaped by the Reformation, the upheavals the Church of England see as it flip-flopped between Catholicism and Anglicanism, and sixteenth Century Calvinism. At age nineteen, Fox began a four-spot year spiritual quest which ended when he experienced a direct call from matinee idol to preach the ideal of the Inner Light.
        Fox taught that the Inner Light meant that each person, heedless of gender or station in life, contained an element of Gods spirit. He taught that each person has direct access to God, that there was no need for separate priestly classes because all believers shared a communal priesthood, churches were not necessary, and that religious ceremonies, rituals, dogma, and creeds were merely empty forms that should be abolished. Fox argued that the teachings of early Christianity were corrupted when the church became institutionalized. He taught that everyone has in spite of appearance him or herself the same power to teach, to heal, and to prophesy that the Apostles had.
        Early Quaker spirituality reflected many Anabaptist ideals.
They felt that the essence of Christian opinion should be obedience to Gods demands for purity of heart, honesty, simple dress, and separation from the province and war-making. They practiced a form of quietism. They sought peace, quiet, order, and prosperity. They worshipped unneurotic at regulated monthly and yearly church function called Meetings, had charismatic ministers, and practiced extemporaneous preaching. Meetings were often held in stamp down so they could hold individual communion with the presence of God dwelling in their midst. Members spoke only if they felt locomote by...
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