Title

Howard Thurman's Jesus: Recovering a Disinherited Identity

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Article

Publication Date

1-1-2019

Abstract

© 2019 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. This essay contextualizes Thurman's "Jesus" within academia and the larger Western milieu of the 1940-1950s. Thurman offered a usable construction in order to encourage people to eliminate their "fear" of the other, discourage their use of "deception" as a strategy of survival, and replace their "hate" with love for the other, as a means of maintaining their own human dignity for the purpose of thriving in an American society that preferred their ghettoized isolation and dehumanized existence.

Comments

Powery, E. (2019). Howard thurman’s jesus: Recovering a disinherited identity. Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus, 17(3), 240–255. https://doi.org/10.1163/17455197-01703005

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