This book aims to summarize the Life and Work of Howard Thurman while also stimulating Thurman scholars in their ongoing explorations of his importance.
And his insistence on the integrity and centrality of personal religious experience was communicated for a half-century in books, and through a personal presence, that continues to have an impact on religious thought and spiritual practice..
He led the first delegation of African Americans to meet with Mahatma Gandhi in 1936, and his theology of radical nonviolence, outlined in Jesus and the Disinherited (1949), influenced and shaped a generation of civil rights activists.
One of the leading religious figures of twentieth-century America, Thurman was one of the first prominent African American pacifists.
This book aims to summarize the Life and Work of Howard Thurman while also stimulating Thurman scholars in their ongoing explorations of his importance
