Lily Chadwick
Background and Research Interests: Lily Chadwick (she/her) is Woodbrooke’s Programme Coordinator for Quaker History. Lily is by training a social historian of the early modern…
George Fox and the Quaker Peace Testimony
Monday 12 May 2025
19:00-20:30 (UK time)
Lily Chadwick
,Douglas Gwyn
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Douglas Gwyn
Douglas Gwyn has served among Friends variously as a peace educator for the American Friends Service Committee, as a Friends pastoral minister, as a teacher…
This single live session is part of a series in which key speakers assess Fox’s legacy from a variety of positions. In this session, Douglas Gwyn will look at George Fox and the Quaker peace testimony.
George Fox is regarded as the principal leader of the early Quaker movement during the 17th century. What part did he play in the development of the Quaker peace testimony? In his Journal he claims to have rejected all violence in the 1640s. However, he also seems to have tolerated Quakers within the army. How can we make sense of this?
Douglas Gwyn has written a number of books on historical Quaker theology, tracing the developments among seventeenth-century and twentieth-century Friends in relation to the wider social and historical currents around them.
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DiscussionSpeakerZoom Session
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