Ranter

Ranter (or renter, Rantertum ) is a term that falls more often associated with the young Quaker. It is not entirely clear whether it actually was a group or just the expression of a differentiation from other groups. Ranter has in English about the meaning of " pathetic speaker " or " bouncer ".

George Fox used this term several times in order to distinguish themselves from people and groups. Thus, the term has been applied for example to the group to Rice Jones, whose followers were among the nation 's best football players and wrestlers. You threw Fox before, to be the " fall worldliness ". The author Joseph Salmon (1647-1656) is also referred to by Fox as a Ranter. This he met personally at a prison visit to Coventry, where he had a dispute with him.

The term Ranter has so within Quakerism a similar connotation as the term counter-revolutionary.