Michael Lloyd-Jones

In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, Joseph Turmel, a French priest born in Brittany in 1859, embarked on what would be a lifelong and intense study of biblical literature and church history. By the age of 26, this course of study had converted him to rationalism. But unlike his near contemporary, Joseph McCabe, he decided to conceal his apostasy and remain a priest.

By the mid-1920s, Joseph McCabe, a former Franciscan monk, was clearly established as one of the leading lights of Rationalism. He was the author of a stream of books, including freethought classics such as The Bankruptcy of Religion and The Social Record of Christianity, a tireless lecturer on evolution and other topics, a veteran of the debating platform, and a regular contributor of articles to The Literary Guide, the monthly magazine of the Rationalist Press Association.

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