E. Stanley Jones: Difference between revisions

Jones was born in Baltimore, Maryland<ref>{{Cite news|date=1947-10-20|title=Religion: A Single, Pointed Power|language=en-US|work=Time|url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,804348,00.html|access-date=2020-09-09|issn=0040-781X}}</ref> on January 3, 1884. He was educated in Baltimore schools and studied law at City College before graduating from [[Asbury University|Asbury College]], Wilmore, [[Kentucky]] in 1907.<ref name="Asbury">{{Cite web|title=E. Stanley Jones|url=https://www.asbury.edu/academics/resources/library/archives/biographies/e-stanley-jones/|access-date=2020-09-09|website=Asbury University|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Leading the Leaders: E. Stanley Jones '07|url=https://www.asbury.edu/life/news-events/news/2014/06/05/leading-the-leaders-e-stanley-jones-07/|website=Asbury University|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180623112809/https://www.asbury.edu/life/news-events/news/2014/06/05/leading-the-leaders-e-stanley-jones-07/|access-date=26 April 2018|archive-date=2018-06-23}}</ref>  He was on the faculty of Asbury College when he was called to missionary service in [[India]] in 1907 under the Board of Missions of the [[Methodist Episcopal Church]].<ref>{{Citation | url = http://theivybush.blogspot.com/2010/03/number-19-e-stanley-jones.html | work = The ivy bush |date=March 2010  | title = E. Stanley Jones}}.</ref><ref name="GoodNewsMag">{{Cite web|title=A Man for Our Time: E. Stanley Jones|url=https://goodnewsmag.org/2016/01/a-man-for-our-time-e-stanley-jones/|access-date=2020-09-09|website=goodnewsmag.org}}</ref>  He traveled to India and began working with the lowest castes, including [[Dalits]]. He became a close friend of many leaders in the [[Indian Independence movement]], and became known for his interfaith work. He said, “Peace is a by-product of conditions out of which peace naturally comes. If reconciliation is God’s chief business, it is ours—between man and God, between man and himself, and between man and man.”<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.readthespirit.com/interfaith-peacemakers/e-stanley-jones/ |website=Read the Spirit |title=E. Stanley Jones}}.</ref>

In 1962, he was nominated for the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] for his missionary work in India.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-04-01|title=Nomination%20Archive|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/archive/show.php?id=17004|access-date=2020-09-09|website=NobelPrize.org|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=1962-01-26|title=NOBEL NOMINATION; E. Stanley Jones' Name Cited for 1962 Peace Award|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1962/01/26/archives/nobel-nomination-e-stanley-jones-name-cited-for-1962-peace-award.html|access-date=2020-09-09|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref name="BrotherJones">{{Cite web|title=Brother E. Stanley Jones|url=https://goodnewsmag.org/2019/05/brother-e-stanley-jones/|access-date=2020-09-09|website=goodnewsmag.org}}</ref><ref name="GoodNewsMag" />

In 1963, Dr. E. Stanley Jones received the [[Gandhi Peace Award]].<ref>{{Citation | publisher = PE Peace | title = GPA biographies | url = http://supportcom.com/PEP/www.pepeace.org/tmpl/GPA_bios.html}}.</ref><ref name="GoodNewsMag" />  Dr. Jones had become a close friend of Mahatma Gandhi,<ref name="Asbury" /> and after Gandhi's assassination wrote a biography on his life.  It is noted that later in time, Rev. Dr. [[Martin Luther King Jr.]] told Jones' daughter, Eunice Jones Mathews, that it was this biography that inspired him to "non-violence" in the Civil Rights Movement.<ref>{{Citation | url = http://www.youthnow.org/site/index.php?Itemid=53&id=109&option=com_content&task=view | title = Youth now}}.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Gandhi: Portrait of a Friend|url=http://www.abingdonpress.com/product/9781501871283/|access-date=2020-09-09|website=Abingdon Press|language=en}}</ref><ref name="Asbury" />