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Quakery arose in the middle of the XVII century as a movement designed to give a new impetus to the spiritual life of England. The British Christianity of that time was mired, on the one hand, in interfaith squabbles (Catholics against Protestants, and the Protestants themselves are against each other), and, on the other hand, the church institutions and clergy themselves discredited themselves with formalism and biennial. According to George Fox, the founder of the Quaker movement, a Christian confused in these contradictions should turn his eyes inside himself, meet God in his soul. If such a meeting occurs, and a person will be able to live all his life in the light of this meeting and the presence of God, then he will achieve the goal of Christian life (according to St. Seraphim of Sarov) - acquiring the Holy Spirit.

Thus, according to the founders of the movement, quakery should not be alternative to Christianity, but to become a generally Christian counterweight to church Pharisery. So, the central concept of quakery - inner light - the early quackers understood as the action of the Holy Spirit in man, as the response of the human soul to the divine verbs. The early quackers did not share the “inner Christ” and the historical Christ, believing that the risen Lord, who once walked through the lands of Palestine, is now present in His spirit in the souls of the faithful. The early quackers believed in the trinity of God and the God -humanism of Christ the Savior. The Bible was understood by them as the most valuable experience of God's communion, but was not the “norm of normalizing”, which distinguished the quakery from the Protestant movement. Faith in the ongoing revelation made it possible to dialectically combine the idea of the immutability of biblical truths with the individuality of God's communication. ...