Leonard Ravenhill on George Fox
I stumbled upon an interesting essay today by Leonard Ravenhill. Ravenhill was a fiery holiness preacher who served as a mentor and model to Keith Green. Ravenhill's essay is about George Fox, founder of the Quakers. Ravenhill wrote that "Fox was far in advance of any other person in his day" and concurs with the opinion of an American governor named Livingston who stated that "George Fox alone has, without human learning, done more than any other reformer in Protestant Christendom towards the restoration of real, primitive, unadulterated Christianity..."
What a fascinating surprise.
http://www.ravenhill.org/fox.htm
More on George Fox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Fox
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But it says something odd about what Americans mean by "learning!"
Fox was reading the Bible and talking it over for years with everyone he could find with a reputation for sanctity & inspiration... and because Fox wasn't spending the time in a classroom being lectured and tested by certified professionals, your guy is saying Fox was "without human learning"?
Hi Forrest,
Just to clarify, Leonard Ravenhill isn't "my guy". I was, however, pleasantly surprised to find that he had written such a glowing biography of Fox. I was not vouching for the accuracy of all of Ravenhill's assertions about Fox.
-Danny
I sense that maybe "human learning" is contrasted with "divine learning". Hence, learning that is unmediated by humans, but that is directly divine. His learning came through listening; to the inner teacher, the inner light, "that of God" within.
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