Reaching toward God

by Michael Marsh

Overview

What can one reasonably believe about the reality and nature of God? If this is a living issue for you, then you are the person to whom I write.

Some of us come to the God question out of a traditional religious background. Others (including me) come to it out of skepticism. Each of us evidently has some inkling of a greater presence, some glimpse of Light. But what does this experience signify? How valid are the old teachings?

The question of God-what kind of God, and God's relation to us--has gnawed me for a long while. My seeking led me to a partial answer several years ago in my Pendle Hill pamphlet, Philosophy of the Inner Light. I was moved further by a Friendly study group I organized to explore the nature of spiritual divinity. Those experiences and other inward explorations brought me to the reality of a truly personal God. The present pamphlet gives my reasons for believing in such a God.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940150163454
Publisher:	Pendle Hill Publications
Publication date:	12/01/2014
Series:	Pendle Hill Pamphlets , #237
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	87 KB

About the Author

Michael Marsh is a member of Friends Meeting of Washington, and of its Ministry and Worship Committee, dating his acquaintance with Quakerism back to his undergraduate years at Swarthmore College and his participation in an AFSC summer work camp, where he first met his wife. The Marshes have two grown children. Michael’s tastes and capacities are varied. For many years associate editor of the newspaper Labor, he is currently a doctoral candidate in philosophy at Catholic University in Washington, D.C., and has produced an entertaining spoof on spies and counterspies—The Rudelstein Affair—a novel published in 198l.
About the present work he says: “The question of God-what kind of God, and God’s relation to us—has gnawed me for a long while. My seeking led me to a partial answer several years ago in my Pendle Hill pamphlet, Philosophy of the Inner Light. I was moved further by a Friendly study group I organized to explore the nature of spiritual divinity. Those experiences and other inward explorations brought me to the reality of a truly personal God. The present pamphlet gives my reasons for believing in such a God.”