‘Real religion must be rooted in material reality.’ Photo: John MacMurray, by Howard Coster, 1933
Are you experienced? Joanna Dales looks at how Friends old and new have sought ‘real’ religion
‘We share with early Quakers the sense that religion should be based on experience.’
by Joanna Dales
4th March 2022
The philosopher John Macmurray (1891-1976), author of the 1965 Swarthmore Lecture, ‘Search for Reality in Religion’, invited his audience to reject forms of Christianity that were ‘unreal’.
