Mysticism and the Experience of Love

by Howard Thurman

Overview

I would like to acknowledge in this Rufus Jones Memorial Lecture my indebtedness to him for so large a share in helping me to stake out the area of thought and the interpretation of experience which has been my formal concern for the past thirty years. In 1929, I was a special student with Rufus Jones at Haverford College. He gave to me confidence in the insight that the religion of the inner life could deal with the empirical experience of man without retreating from the demands of such experience. To state what I mean categorically, the religion of the inner life at its best is life affirming rather than life denying and must forever be involved in the Master's instruction, "Be ye perfect, even as your heavenly father is perfect."

Product Details

BN ID:	2940151586580
Publisher:	Pendle Hill Publications
Publication date:	04/29/2015
Series:	Pendle Hill Pamphlets , #115
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	65 KB

About the Author

Howard Thurman, Dean of Marsh Chapel and Professor of Spiritual Resources and Disciplines at Boston University, gave the 1961 Rufus Jones Lecture sponsored by the Religious Education Committee of the Friends General Conference at Baltimore Friends School, and revised that address slightly for its publication as a Pendle Hill pamphlet. A widely traveled lecturer, teacher and author, he is perhaps best known as co-founder of Fellowship Church in San Francisco and as the author of Deep River, Jesus and the Disinherited, Deep is the Hunger, Meditations of the Heart, The Creative Encounter, The Growing Edge, and Footprints of a Dream.