Explores the genesis of the Quaker movement and its underlying foundation: its intimate vision of the Kingdom of God, in the midst of the turmoil of 17th century Britain.

Gerard Guiton is the author of The Growth and Development of Quaker Testimony (2005), a spiritual direction work, Stillness (1994), and has co-edited Overcoming Violence in Asia: the Role of the Churches in Seeking Cultures of Peace (2011) for the Historic Peace Churches/WCC. He was Henry J. Cadbury Scholar at Pendle Hill Quaker Study Centre (Philadelphia, 2004-5).