February 2, 2013 Book Culture & the Rise of Liberal Religion
Matthew Hedstrom, Religion & Politics In 1904 the Quaker mystic
and philosopher Rufus Jones published Social Law in the
Spiritual World with a grand ambition. “The cure for
skepticism,” Jones declared at the outset, “is always deeper
knowledge,” and with this book he sought to bring deeper
knowledge to a new generation of modern skeptics. Like many
intellectuals of his day, Jones knew firsthand the struggle of
the modern believer, as he had grappled first with Darwinian
evolution and then with the even more unsettling theories of
modern psychology. TAGGED: Rufus Jones