";s:4:"text";s:3402:" Martin Luther King Jr. reportedly carried a copy of a book entitled Jesus and the Disinherited with him. [5] an ‘interfaith organization’ whose current mission is ‘ to organize, train, and grow a diverse movement that welcomes all people of conscience to end structures of violence and war, and create peace through the transformative power of nonviolence.’ [6]By 1929 Thurman was studying at Haverford College in Haverford, Pennsylvania, with Rufus Jones, an influential Quaker, and author of the book, By 1932, he was chairman of the Committee on Religious Life and Professor of Theology at Howard University.
[11] In India he met Mahatma Gandhi. There's a few slow spots in the book, as is true of all books: but, by and large, it serves the audience it was intended for: those with their backs against the wall. 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. This book needs to be part of the literature of anyone seeking social justice! It rationalizes segregation–without it, there would be no protection against invasion by the oppressed. A poor, minority Jew under the Roman Empire. [14]King earned a doctorate in theology from BU in 1955. Whether it was desperate asylum seekers drowning by the boat load or a 7 year old girl pleading for the lives of Syrians from Aleppo, the brokenness of the world never felt nearer to me. Wytsma shares his own journey of understanding the underpinnings of inequality and privilege.We must learn to live together as brothers, or we will perish together as fools.— Martin Luther King Jr.Dr. He affirmed life, and death was the great denial. Thurman, a highly educated lawyer who bravely trail-blazed key civil rights cases, unveils the true “religion of Jesus.” Jesus was a Jew. The ‘Jesus’ in Thurman presents a Jesus of revolution, who is difficult to understand unless you have made a conscious decision to submit to his teachings.
This is a honest perspective of what power and dominion can destroy the morals of the privileged and break the spirit of the disinherited.
Be refreshed and replenished, soothed and uplifted.Is privilege real or imagined? By inference [Jesus] identifies the principles as follows: Fear: ‘You must abandon your fear of each other and fear only God.’ Deception: ‘You must not indulge in any deception or dishonesty, even to save your lives’. Essentially, it's premise can be derived from this quote:Serious theology, serious spirituality for those with their backs against the wall
Full of admiration for his intellect and his insight of the situations of blacks in America.They are the poor, the disinherited , the dispossessed.” To the existence of these injustices, Thurman offers Jesus as the answer to salvation first, which takes care of one’s eternal life, and only afterwards may the question of earthly injustice be addressed. A poor Jew. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations
So what does this disinherited Jesus teach and preach?