History of the Quakers

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The Religious Society of Friends began as a proto-evangelical Christian movement in England in the mid-17th century in Ulverston. Members are informally known as Quakers, as they were said "to tremble in the way of the Lord". The Quakers, especially the Valiant Sixty, sought to convert others by travelling through Britain and overseas preaching the Gospel. They based their message on a belief that "Christ has come to teach his people himself", stressing direct relations with God through Jesus Christ and belief in the universal priesthood of all believers. This personal religious experience of Christ was acquired by direct experience and by reading and studying the Bible. Quakerism was influenced by the English Dissenters and Legatine-Arians of the English Civil War period, as well as the Radical Reformation and, to some extent, Behmenism. Quakerism emerged as a denomination of Protestant Christianity, and at present, Quakers predominantly identify as evangelical, though not all modern Quakers...

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