Wilmer A. Cooper, retired from Earlham College, is the author of, among others, A Living Faith: An Historical and Comparative Study of Quaker Beliefs and Growing Up Plain Among Conservative Wilburite Quakers: The Journey of a Public Friend.
1. Excerpts for this manuscript have been borrowed from an earlier article I wrote on "The Legacy of Rufus M. Jones" which appeared in the Festschrift for T. Canby Jones, Practiced in the Presence, edited by D. Neil Snarr & Daniel L. Smith-Christopher, 1994. These excerpts appear in sections titled "Quaker Mysticism and Quaker Spirituality," 4-7, and "That of God in Everyone," 7-10.
2. Rufus M. Jones, The Flowering of Mysticism: The Friends of God in the Fourteenth Century (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1941), 250-251.
3. Social Law in the Spiritual World. Studies in Human and Divine Inter-Relationship (Philadelphia: J. C. Winston Company, 1906), 148-155; 156.
4. The Luminous Trail (New York: Macmillan Company, 1947), 13-14.
5. New Studies in Mystical Religion (New York: Macmillan Company, 1927), 170.
6. J. Calvin Keene. "Historical Quakerism and Mysticism," Quaker Religious Thought, Vol. VII, No, 2, Autumn 1965, 10.
7. Daniel E. Bassuk, "Rufus Jones and Mysticism," Quaker Religious Thought, No. 46, Summer 1978, 22-23.
8. John Punshon, "Rufus Jones and Mystical Quakerism, Friends Journal, November 15, 1984, 10.
9. Rufus M. Jones, The Trail of Life in the Middle Years (New York: Macmillan Company, 1934), 40-41.
10. H, G, Wood, The Quaker Understanding of Christian Faith (London: Friends Home Service Committee, 1955), 9.
11. Howard Brinton, The Religious Philosophy of Quakerism (Wallingford, PA: Pendle Hill, 1973), 29.
12. Bassuk, 14.
13. Richard K. Ullmann, Friends and Truth (London: Friends Home Service Committee, 1955), p.35.
14. Ullmann, 33-34.
15. Rufus M. Jones, Friends Intelligencer, Vol. 105, July 17, 1948, 408.
16. Howard Brinton, Preface to Barclay in Brief, ed. by Eleanor Price Mather (Wallingford, Pa: Pendle Hill, 1948), Pamphlet No. 28, 4.
17. L. Hugh Doncaster, God in Every Man, Swarthmore Lecture (London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1963), viii.