Jones, Rufus (1863 - 1948)

Genre: Non-Fiction, Non-Fiction - Scholarly

Jones lived in South China, Maine, and authored dozens of books about ethics and Quaker (Society of Friends) history. He was also a well-known Haverford College philosophy professor for forty years. His autobiography is called A Small-Town Boy (1941).

Selected Bibliography

  • Eli and Sybil Jones: Their Life and Work (1889)
  • The Society of Friends in Kennebec County, Maine (1892)
  • A Boy's Religion From Memory (1902)
  • Practical Christianity: Essays on the Practice of Religion (1905)
  • A Dynamic Faith (1906)
  • Little Book of Selections from The Children of the Light (1909)
  • Studies in Mystical Religion (1909)
  • The Quakers in the American Colonies (1911/1962/1966)
  • Spiritual Reformers in the 16th and 17th Centuries (1914/1928/1971)
  • The Inner Life (1916)
  • St. Paul, the Hero (1917)
  • The Religious History of New England: King's Chapel Lectures (1917; with others)
  • The World Within (1918)
  • The Quaker Conception of the Church (1918)
  • The Remnant (1920)
  • A Service of Love in War Time: American Friends Relief Work in Europe, 1917-1919 (1920)
  • The Later Periods of Quakerism (1921/1970)
  • The Boy Jesus and His Companions (1922/1930)
  • Social Life in the Spiritual World: Studies in Human and Divine Inter-Relationship (1923)
  • The Church's Debt to Heretics (1924)
  • Fundamental Ends of Life (1924)
  • The Life of Christ (1926)
  • Finding the Trail of Life (1926)
  • The Faith and Practice of the Quakers (1927/1938)
  • New Studies in Mystical Religion (1927/1974; lectures at Union Theological Seminary, NY)
  • The New Quest (1928)
  • Story of Hebrew Heroes (1928)
  • The Trail of Life in College (1929)
  • George Fox: Seeker and Friend (1930)
  • Some Exponents of Mystical Religion (1930)
  • Pathways to the Reality of God (1931)
  • Mysticism and Democracy in the English Commonwealth (1932; lectures)
  • A Preface to Christian Faith in a New Age (1932)
  • Haverford College: A History and An Interpretation (1933)
  • The Trail of Life in the Middle Years (1934)
  • Re-Thinking Religious Liberalism (1935)
  • The Testimony of the Soul (1936)
  • Spiritual Energies in Daily Life (1936)
  • The Double Search: God's Search for Man and Man's Search for God: Studies in Atonement and Prayer (1937)
  • Some Problems of Life (1937)
  • The Eternal Gospel (1938)
  • The Flowering of God: Friends of the God in the Fourteenth Century (1939)
  • Rethinking Quaker Principles (1940)
  • The Shepherd Who Missed the Manger (1941)
  • Spirit in Man (1941)
  • A Great Experiment (1942)
  • The Story of George Fox (1943)
  • The Evolution of the Soul (1943)
  • New Eyes for Invisibles (1943)
  • The American Friends in France, 1917-1919 (1943)
  • Jewish Mysticism (1943)
  • The Radiant Life (1944)
  • The Luminous Trail (1947)
  • A Call to What is Vital (1948)
  • Addresses about South China (1955)
  • Quakerism: A Spiritual Movement (1963; six essays, with a sketch of his life by Mary Hoxie Jones)
  • Mysticism in Robert Browning (1971)

Selected Resources

  • A bibliography of the published writings of Rufus M. Jones compiled by Nixon Orwin Rush ; together with a brief account of his life (1944)
  • Rufus Jones, Master Quaker by David Hinshaw (1951)

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