This book relates the authors personal and professional attempt to create a philosophy of religion which can be warranted by experience and by the available evidence.

Swarthmore lecture

On reflection, it seemed to me that I could serve this occasion best by setting myself to understand the processes and the pressures which led me, at the end of my public life, to seek the fellowship of the Society of Friends. In a real sense, this was the conclusion of a lifetime of religious reflection, which had been itself a search for reality in religion.....

Scottish philosopher John Macmurray took membership in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in his seventies. When the Society invited him to deliver the annual Swarthmore Lecture, a British Quaker tradition since 1907, he writes, "On reflection, it seemed to me that I could serve this occasion best by setting myself to understand the processes and the pressures which led me, at the end of my public life, to seek the fellowship of the Society of Friends. In a real sense, this was the conclusion of a lifetime of religious reflection, which had been itself a search for reality in religion." Having just begun my own seventh decade, I find myself in much the same condition as Macmurray when he delivered his 1965 address. I, too, have come to the Quakers after a lifetime of religious reflection. Thus, as a seeker, I was very interested to read what one of the twentieth century's outstanding philosophers had to say about his search that culminated in the same religious community as my own. ( )

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