Background
Kelly was born in 1893 in Ohio to a Quaker family (members of the Religious Society of Friends).
( One reason for Kelly’s broad appeal lies in his underst...)
One reason for Kelly’s broad appeal lies in his understanding of the “seeker.” He knows that many of us, both inside and outside of the church, long for something more than the “common, mild, gentle, half-hearted conventional religiosity” which we so often experience. We want authentic, vital, life-changing faith. He also knows that our dissatisfaction is born less of spiritual blindness than of a vision of something greater, a vision engendered by God’s gracious Presence itself. “We are all seekers,” he says, “for we feel that we are sought.” But, most of all, Kelly assures us that what we long for is indeed possible. In doing so, he gives us witness rather than argument, description rather than definition. — from the Foreword, by Howard Macy
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An adequate life might be described as a life which has grasped intuitively the whole nature of things, and has seen and felt and refocused itself to this whole.. The adequate life that Thomas Kelly has known he described with unusual simplicity and grace in the collection of his writings that are gathered here.
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( Since its first publication in 1941, A Testament of Dev...)
Since its first publication in 1941, A Testament of Devotion, by the renowned Quaker teacher Thomas Kelly, has been universally embraced as a truly enduring spiritual classic. Plainspoken and deeply inspirational, it gathers together five compelling essays that urge us to center our lives on God's presence, to find quiet and stillness within modern life, and to discover the deeply satisfying and lasting peace of the inner spiritual journey. As relevant today as it was a half-century ago, A Testament of Devotion is the ideal companion to that highest of all human arts-the lifelong conversation between God and his creatures. I have in mind something deeper than the simplification of our external programs, our absurdly crowded calendars of appointments through which so many pantingly and frantically gasp. These do become simplified in holy obedience, and the poise and peace we have been missing can really be found. But there is a deeper, an internal simplification of the whole of one's personality, stilled, tranquil, in childlike trust listening ever to Eternity's whisper, walking with a smile into the dark."
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(6 Pamphlets with selections from great Christian works to...)
6 Pamphlets with selections from great Christian works to be used for Devotionals, this booklets are approximately 6"x3.5"
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Kelly was born in 1893 in Ohio to a Quaker family (members of the Religious Society of Friends).
He graduated in 1913 from Wilmington College as a chemistry major.
His books are widely read, especially by people interested in spirituality. Kelly went to Hartford Theological Seminary to be trained as a missionary and he desired to serve in Asia. When World War I broke out, he signed up to work for the Young Men’s Christian Association with the troops in training at Salisbury Plain.
He eventually worked with German prisoners of war.
He was fired as he and many of his colleagues became ardent pacifists and the military did not want persons with those views to have access to military personnel. Kelly taught for two years (1919–1921) at his alma mater, Wilmington College.
Then he went back to Hartford Seminary where he earned a doctorate in philosophy and an induction to Phi Beta Kappa. When he returned he was appointed head of the Philosophy Department of Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana.
He was unhappy there and came to realize that he did not agree with much of his evangelical background anymore.
In 1930 Kelly began working on a second Doctor of Philosophy at Harvard. While working on this degree he taught at Wellesley College (1931–1932) and again at Earlham (1932–1935). In 1935, he went to teach at the University of Hawaii and began advanced research in Eastern philosophies.
In 1936, Kelly became a professor at Haverford College.
He published the dissertation for his second doctorate in 1937, but he failed in the oral defense due to a memory lapse. This failure put Kelly into a period of grief, during which time he apparently had a spiritual awakening.
In 1938, Kelly went to Germany to encourage Friends living under Hitler"s regime. He died of a heart attack later that same day.
The book was published under the title Some of his other essays have been collected in a book entitled The Eternal Promise.
( Since its first publication in 1941, A Testament of Dev...)
(An adequate life might be described as a life which has g...)
(6 Pamphlets with selections from great Christian works to...)
( One reason for Kelly’s broad appeal lies in his underst...)