Howard Thurman was a unique man-a black minister, philosopher, and educator whose vitality and vision touched the lives of countless people of all races, faiths, and cultures. Index; photographs.
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Howard Thurman (born 1899 in Daytona Beach, Florida - April 10, 1981 in Daytona Beach, Florida) was an influential American author, philosopher, theologian, educator and civil rights leader. He was Dean of Theology and the chapels at Howard and Boston universities for more than two decades, wrote 20 books, and in 1944 helped found the first racially integrated, multicultural church in the United States.
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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.
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The profound experiences of an influential American mystic.,
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Consistently written from a space of incredible compassion and profound understanding of the human condition, Dr. Howard Thurman's extraordinary path unfolds as if it were any man's path. He was mentor to the young Martin Luther King, friend and confidante of Mahatma Gandhi, and founder of San Francisco's Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples; all performed while living the experience of a black man during America's most racially turbulent years. Though he comes from a Christian background and is steeped in Christian theology, his understanding is that of the mystic; seeing the heart of truth in all the world's belief systems. Dr. Thurman is not widely known, but should be on the reading list of anyone who seeks insight into how to move the heart into the world. I will never be without Dr. Thurman's guidance in my life again
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One of the great American Memoirs of the 20th Century!,
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I recently returned to Thurman's autobiography after 15 years. I am developing a course in Composition/African-American Literature. Thurman's words will be the springboard. His prose is elegant and concise; his sensitivity to nature, a poetic model; his expansive spirit, inspirational. Many chapters will serve as exercises for writing; e.g.: his instruction for the preparation of sermons. In fine, his response to life is a guidline for good writing and holy living.
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An excellent compendium,
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Thurman stands on his own as a giant. The only weakness of the book is that often the compilers feel the need to tell us what Thurman is going to say. Not sure so much from Disciplines of the Spirit needed to be reprinted. I read much of the book during a 12 hour Prayer Vigil and found it very enriching and satisfying.
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"At the end of my first year at the Rochester Theological Seminary, I became assistant to the minister of the First Baptist Church of Roanoke, Virginia." Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
San Francisco, Howard University, Fellowship Church, New York, Boston University, Baptist Church, United States, Daytona Beach, Marsh Chapel, Howard Thurman, School of Theology, Morehouse College, Rankin Chapel, Divinity School, Methodist Church, Rufus Jones, Big Boy, Columbia University, John Hope, Los Angeles, Olive Schreiner, Sunday School, Halifax River, Harold Case, President Case New!
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"At the end of my first year at the Rochester Theological Seminary, I became assistant to the minister of the First Baptist Church of Roanoke, Virginia." Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
San Francisco, Howard University, Fellowship Church, New York, Boston University, Baptist Church, United States, Daytona Beach, Marsh Chapel, Howard Thurman, School of Theology, Morehouse College, Rankin Chapel, Divinity School, Methodist Church, Rufus Jones, Big Boy, Columbia University, John Hope, Los Angeles, Olive Schreiner, Sunday School, Halifax River, Harold Case, President Case New!
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- The Inward Journey by Howard Thurman in Front Matter, and page 263
- in Front Matter, and page 188
- The Christ of the Indian Road by E. Stanley Jones on page 116
- Temptations of Jesus by Howard Thurman in Front Matter
- The Centering Moment by Howard Thurman in Front Matter
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- Black Genius and the American Experience by Dick Russell on page 449, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Religion, Economics, and Public Policy: Ironies, Tragedies, and Absurdities of the Contemporary Culture Wars by Andrew D. Walsh on page 97, and Back Matter
- The New Interpreter's Bible: Luke - John (Volume 9) by Leander E. Keck on page 308, and page 309
- Meaning and Modernity: Religion, Polity, and Self by Richard Madsen in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- United by Faith: The Multiracial Congregation As an Answer to the Problem of Race by Curtiss Paul DeYoung in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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