This is a book of rare quality, indeed, admirably suited for use the season for personal or group devotions. Thurman gives us twenty-five ""working papers"" for meditations which he his own church. His contribution to the large audiences he addresses each year across the and to his own inter-racial congregation consists not only in the prophetic quality of but also in his ability to lead a group into an atmosphere of of devotional readings grew out of his weekly messages printed in his church salls them ""Meditations for Apostles of Sensitiveness"" and presents them in three (1) A sense of history (2) A sense of self and (3) A sense of presence. His vision of the world was one of a democratic camaraderie born of faith, and in light of today's global community, one of particular importance.Howard Thurman, the Pastor of ""the Church for the Fellowship of all Peoples"" is Francisco is one of the most sought for preachers at college chapels and. Musty, and Pauli Murray the first black dean at a white university cofounder of the first interracially pastored, intercultural church in the United States Howard Thurman (1899-1981) was a man of penetrating foresight and astonishing charisma. "Thurman's prophetic witness and piercing intellect are as relevant to our current hour of tumult as they were when he first put these incisive thoughts to paper."-Jelani Cobb, author of The Substance of Hope " is the centerpiece of the Black prophet-mystic's lifelong attempt to bring the harrowing beauty of the African-American experience into deep engagement with what he called 'the religion of Jesus.' Ultimately his goal was to offer this humanizing combination as the basis for an emancipatory way of being, moving toward a fundamentally unchained life that is available to all the women and men everywhere who hunger and thirst for righteousness, especially those 'who stand with their backs against the wall.'"Ībout the Author Hailed by Life magazine as one of the great preachers of the twentieth century a spiritual advisor to Martin Luther King, Jr., Sherwood Eddy, James Farmer, A. Only through self-love and love of one another can God's justice prevail. Jesus is a partner in the pain of the oppressed and the example of His life offers a solution to ending the descent into moral nihilism.
In this classic theological treatise, the acclaimed theologian and religious leader Howard Thurman (1900-1981) demonstrates how the gospel may be read as a manual of resistance for the poor and disenfranchised. sought inspiration from in the days leading up to the Montgomery bus boycott, Howard Thurman's Jesus and the Disinherited helped shape the civil rights movement and changed our nation's history forever. About the Book Originally published: New York, Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, 1949.įamously known as the text that Martin Luther King Jr.
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