Seeing Iris, part two: Jonathan Wooding has more on a profound Quakerly thinker

‘Just sitting quiet will help. Teach it to children.’

by Jonathan Wooding 9th April 2021

If Iris Murdoch had ministered to Friends (as some of her relatives did) I suspect we would have welcomed this: ‘Perhaps (I believe) Christianity can continue without a personal God or a risen Christ, without beliefs in supernatural places and happenings, such as heaven and life after death, but retaining the mystical figure of Christ occupying a place analogous to that of Buddha: a Christ who can console and save, but who is to be found as a living force within each human soul and not in some supernatural elsewhere.’