[3] They saw this idea expressed most powerfully in the opening words of the Gospel of St John.
Quakers, known formally as the Religious Society of Friends, are generally united by a belief in each human's ability to experience the light within.
For this idea, they often turn to a passage in the journal of George Fox, the prophetic founder of Quakerism.
[4] However, this idea of the Light as divine spark was introduced, not by Fox, but by Rufus Jones early in the twentieth century, as clarified by Lewis Benson.
Quakers first gathered around George Fox in the mid–17th century and belong to a historically Protestant Christian set of denominations.