![]() But he is also one to turn toward solutions and strategy. ![]() He is direct and to the point with his analysis of the disinherited experience. No degree in theology is needed to understand his writing. “Fear is one of the persistent hounds of hell that dog the footsteps of the poor, the disposed, the disinherited.” He was not the one marching, he was the one to whom those who marched would retreat for sustenance and resolve. Many considered Thurman the pastor, the mystic, and the chaplain to the Civil Rights movement. Martin Luther King often carried this little book with him from place to place. ![]() Thurman proceeds to lay out what can fairly be called an early treatise of a US American version of liberation theology for the African-American church. But few of these interpretations deal with what the teachings and life of Jesus have to say to those who stand, at a moment in human history, with their backs against the wall.” “Many and varied are the interpretations dealing with the teachings and life of Jesus of Nazareth. ![]() ![]() His book Jesus and the Disinherited is a small and readable guide to the experience, perspective, and theology behind the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 60s. Howard Thurman has come across my desk many times in the past year. ![]()
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