Light and Life in the Fourth Gospel

The three pathfinders of early Quakerism were George Fox, Robert Barclay, and William Penn. All three based their theology on the gospel of John. George Fox was the powerful personality who held together a group without human leadership and with the minimum of organization. This Fox was able to do in spite of a savage persecution during which hundreds of Quakers died in filthy dungeons. Robert Barclay furnished the Quaker movement with a profound theology based on John’s gospel. William Pen...