T. Canby Jones

T. Canby Jones

T. Canby Jones is an advocate of the "War of the Lamb", a Quaker peace activist, a professor emeritus of Wilmington College in Ohio, and was a student of Thomas R. Kelly.

T. Canby Jones (born 1921 in Japan to Friends missionary parents) is a son of Thomas E. Jones (1888-1973), who was president of Fisk University, 1926-1946, and of Earlham College, 1946-1958. He graduated from Westtown Friends Boarding School, Haverford College, and Yale University, where he earned divinity and Ph.D. degrees.

He served as a Professor of Religion at Wilmington College from 1955 until his retirement in 1987. His book publications include "George Fox's Attitude Toward War; A Documentary Study" (Friends United Press, 1984), "The Power of the Lord Is Over All": The Pastoral Letters of George Fox" (Friends United Press, 1989), and "Thomas R. Kelly As I Remember Him" (Pendle Hill, 1989).

He is a founding member of the Friends Association for Higher Education (FAHE), and a charter member of Campus Friends Meeting in Wilmington, Ohio. He is the subject of the book "Practiced In The Presence: Essays In Honor of T. Canby Jones" (Friends United Press, 1994). [Brief biography provided by Watson Library Archives, Wilmington College (OH)]

ee also

*Daniel L. Smith-Christopher

External links

* [http://www.fum.org/QL/issues/0501/Jones-TheLambShallOvercome.htm The Lamb Shall Overcome]


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