George Fox and the Children of the Light

By Jonathan Fryer

George Fox and the Children of the Light provides a vivid portrait of an important and extraordinary figure from history whose legacy still flourishes.

Born in 1624 and never formally educated, George Fox was a visionary, denouncing humbug and proclaiming the Inner Light as he journeyed through seventeenth-century England. Reviled and revered, Fox incited riots as often as he inspired devotion. Yet from his network of sympathetic souls grew the Religious Society of Friends, popularly known as the Quakers.

Writer and broadcaster Jonathan Fryer, himself a well-known Quaker contributor to Radio 4’s ‘Thought for the Day’, has edited Fox’s journal to sustain its narrative thrust and reveal its social and spiritual influence. He supplements the journal with a selection of Fox’s Epistles and his own illuminating introduction to the man and his times.

This book makes Fox’s journal and works accessible to a much wider audience and is a must-read for anyone with an interest in religious/spiritual thought and history.