Joseph Mathews

A glimpse of Joseph Wesley Mathews – the founding leader of the Institutes and Order: Ecumenical:

• His dissertation on John Wesley:  One story is that H. Richard Neibuhr rejected the dissertation; and it was never rewritten: Chapter 1:  The Human Constitution; Chapter 2:  The Life of Love; Chapter 3:  The Knowledge of Faith; Conclusion Concluding Remarks
• “How My Theology has Changed in the Last Decade”, December 19, 1946
• “The Greatest Day of My Life“
• “Grief“, following death of his son, John, August 10, 1972
• “The Time My Father Died“
• “On Being a Son of God“, August 1975
• Advent Reflections, December, 1975
• “The Future“, July 18, 1976
• “Profound Humanness as Integrity“ – July, 1977
• Introduction of Joe by his brother, Bishop James Mathews, November 19, 1971
• “The Final Mystery“, Bishop James Mathews witness at JWM funeral, October 20, 1977
• A Chart of JWM Chronology, 2015

“After [WWII chaplain Joseph W. Mathews] held young soldiers in his arms as they died in the Pacific, he dedicated himself to the reformation of the church that could speak the word with power to the dying and the living. He dedicated himself to creating new ways to call, train, engage, and sustain others on the one spirit journey we all travel.”

~~ John Epps, general editor of Bending History: Talks of Joseph Wesley Mathews, p. 241 (jpc edits); book at amazon.com