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George Fox and the Quakers

In Our Time: Religion

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What's the Importance of the Civil War?

I think in essence we're dealing with a traumatized society. The execution of Charles I really staggered everybody's convictions in hierarchy in order. In essence God had been killed and the consequence for normal accounts of religion was very, very traumatic. So Quakerism and a lot of the other radical sectarians grow out of that sense of loss of expectation.

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