Journey through Skepticism

by Roland L. Warren

Overview

I find much in the figure of Jesus and in the Christian tradition that helps create and sustain such a longing, such an image, and such an aspiration. But I will not be pushed into worshiping Jesus – to me a form of paganism – or into accepting a God who, far from transcending human standards, periodically falls short of them, as in the first part of Job. Nevertheless, there is a spirit within me which will not be gainsaid, a spirit which unites me in my best moments with something beyond myself, something I can admire and seek to emulate and embody, something which calls for an appropriate response, even when I do not give it.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940151417303
Publisher:	Pendle Hill Publications
Publication date:	05/19/2015
Series:	Pendle Hill Pamphlets , #361
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	109 KB

About the Author

Roland L. Warren has spent most of his academic career teaching and studying communities and social change. He has published several books and numerous journal articles in these two fields. Since his retirement (he is now 87), he has turned to other pursuits, publishing two novels and three biographies, mostly dealing with seventeenth-century colonial Massachusetts. He also enjoys composing music, both sacred and secular.
He and his wife, Margaret Hodges Warren, a violin maker, have been active Quakers for the past fifty years, having helped found Friends Meetings in Alfred and Rye, New York. They have worked on assignments from the American Friends Service Committee, including directing International Student Seminars in Denmark and Austria and Diplomats Conferences in Clarens, Switzerland. They spent two years in Berlin when Roland was Quaker International Affairs Representative to both parts of the divided Germany during the height of the Cold War. Roland also served on the AFSC Board of Directors for a number of years, during which time he led peace missions first to North Korea and then to South Korea.
In the past fifteen years or so he has turned to exploring the relationship between faith (his faith) and reason. The present pamphlet has emerged from this endeavor.