The Centering Moment [Paperback]

Howard Thurman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1984

"This is a book of Prayer-Meditations winnowed out of a wide variety of meetings for worship. Some of them are topical in the sense that they reflect concern about contemporary events as they were happening in our immediate world. Others are windows into the brooding mind and quickened hearts of those who sensed the living God in their private struggles, needs, and predicaments...

They spring out of the tradition of Christian religious experience while they envelop needs and aspirations that are as universal as the human heart, as particular as human frailty, as intimate as the care of God for the fallen sparrow or as relentless as the ebb and flow of kingdoms and civilizations."
--- Howard Thurman

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From the Back Cover

At the time of his death in 1981, Howard Thurman was Dean Emeritus of Marsh Chapel, Boston University, and Chairman of the board of trustees of the Howard Thurman Educational Trust in San Francisco. He also served as Dean of Rankin Chapel, Howard University, Washington D.C.; as professor at Howard University School of Religion, and as Director of Religion Life at Morehouse and Spelman Colleges, Atlanta. Founder of the Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples in San Francisco, the first interracial, interdenominational church in the united States, he was honorary Canon of the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York City.

Poet, Mystic, Philosopher and Theologian, Dr. Thurman authored more than twenty books including, Meditations of the Heart, The Inward Journey, Jesus and the Disinherited, The Centering Moment, The Creative Encounter, The Search for Common Ground and With Head and Heart, his autobiography.

About the Author

At the time of his death in 1981, Howard Thurman was Dean Emeritus of Marsh Chapel, Boston University, and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Howard Thurman Educational Trust in San Francisco. He founded the Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples in San Francisco, the first interracial, interdenominational church in the United States.

Poet, Mystic, Philosopher and Theologian, Dr. Thurman authored more than twenty books.

Product Details

• Paperback: 125 pages
• Publisher: Friends United Pr (October 1984)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0913408646
• ISBN-13: 978-0913408643
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.7 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #489,297 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Howard Thurman (1900-1981) was the first black dean of Marsh Chapel at Boston University and cofounder of the Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples in San Francisco, California, the first inter-racially copastored church in America.