“His study is distinguished by moderation and justice, high intent and reverent spirit. It has a peculiar significance for us, because, in a generation when many are following will-o’-the-wisps and garish lights, it studies classic and enduring experiences; and because it reminds us of a mystic strain which is our inheritance, and, I hope, our genius, and which in time will have its own poets, philosophers, and prophets. If this comes not even in some measure in our own day, it will still be splendid to have prepared the way and made straight the path by some such notable achievement as this study in mystical religion by Professor Jones.”—Boston Transcript.
Spiritual Reformers of the Sixteenth and
Seventeenth Centuries
Cloth, 8vo, $3.00
Professor Rufus Jones is well known in this country and in England for his earlier writings on the history of Quakerism and other phases of mystical religion, and this new work on some of the more obscure teachers among the Reformers will be received with interest.
The book opens with a general survey of the main currents of the Reformation, and in succeeding chapters he deals with the following subjects: II. Hans Denck and the Inward Word; III. Two Prospects of the Inward Word—Bunderlein and Entfelder; IV. Sebastian Franck; V. Caesar Schwenckfeld; VI. Sebastian Castello; VII. Coornhert and the Collegiants—A Movement for Spiritual Religion in Holland; VIII. Valentine Weigel and Nature Mysticism; IX. Jacob Boehme: His Life and Spirit; X. Boehme’s Universe; XI. Boehme’s “Way of Salvation”; XII. Boehme’s Influence in England; XIII. Early English Interpreters—John Everard and Giles Randall, and others; XIV. Spiritual Religion in High Places—Rous, Vane, and Sterry; XV. Benjamin Whichcote, the First of the “Latitude Men”; XVI. John Smith, Platonist; XVII. The Spiritual Poets of the Seventeenth Century.
The Quakers in the American Colonies
By Prof. RUFUS M. JONES, M.A., D.Litt.
ASSISTED BY
ISAAC SHARPLESS, D.Sc.
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