Quaker Spirituality

Selected Writings

EDITED AND INTRODUCED BY

DOUGLAS V. STEERE

PREFACE BY

ELIZABETH GRAY VINING

PAULIST PRESS

Cover Art:

Bust of George Fox, bronze, Alfred Turner. Courtesy of the Library of the Religious Society of Friends, London.

Acknowledgments

The Publisher gratefully acknowledges the use of material from the following books:

The Journal of George Fox, edited by John L. Nichalls. Used by permission of The Library Committee of the Religious Society of Friends in Great Britain.

The Journal and Major Essays of John Woolman, edited by Phillips P. Moulton. Copyright © 1971 by Oxford University Press, Inc. Reprinted by permission.

Finding the Trail of Life by Rufus M. Jones. Copyright 1926 by Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., renewed 1954 by Mary Hoxie Jones. Reprinted with permission of Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc.

The Luminous Trail by Rufus M. Jones. Copyright 1947 by Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., renewed 1975 by Mary Hoxie Jones. Reprinted with permission of Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc.

A Testament of Devotion by Thomas R. Kelly. Copyright © 1941 by Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., renewed © 1969 by Lois Lael Kelly Stabler. Reprinted by permission of Harper & Row Publishers, Inc.

The Eternal Promise by Thomas Kelly, edited by Richard M. Kelly. Copyright © 1966 by Richard M. Kelly. Reprinted by permission of Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc.

Copyright © 1984 by

Douglas V. Steere

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ISBN: 0-8091-2510-2 (paper)

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EDITORIAL BOARD

Editor-in-Chief

John Farina

Editorial Consultant

Ewert H. Cousins—Professor, Fordham University, Bronx, N.Y.

John E. Booty—Professor of Church History, Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Mass.

Joseph Dan—Professor of Kaballah in the Department of Jewish Thought, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.

Albert Deblaere—Professor of the History of Spirituality, Gregorian University, Rome, Italy.

Louis Dupré—T. L. Riggs Professor in Philosophy of Religion, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.

Rozanne Elder—Executive Vice President, Cistercian Publications, Kalamazoo, Mich.

Mircea Eliade—Professor in the Department of the History of Religions, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.

Anne Fremantle—Teacher, Editor and Writer, New York, N.Y.

Karlfried Froelich—Professor of the History of the Early and Medieval Church, Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, N.J.

Arthur Green—Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.

Stanley S. Harakas—Professor of ...