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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)