A strange freedom
Subtitle: the best of Howard Thurman on religious experience and public life
By: Walter Earl Fluker & Catherine Tumber, editors.
Contributors: Fluker, Walter E., 1951-; Tumber, Catherine.
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
Subjects: Christian life -- Baptist authors.; Experience (Religion); Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.; Meditations.
Description: Hailed by Life magazine as one of the great preachers of the twentieth century; a spiritual advisor to Martin Luther King, Jr., Sherwood Eddy, James Farmer, A. J. Musty, and Pauli Murray; the first black dean at a white university; cofounder of the first interracially pastored, intercultural church in the United States; Howard Thurman was a man of penetrating foresight and astonishing charisma.

His vision of the world - one united in civility and bound by a relationship to God that overwhelmed the constructs of racism in favor of a democratic camaraderie born of faith - formed the basis of one of the most critical moments in our nation's history, the Civil Rights Movement. This collection of select published and unpublished works offers a look at the evolution of Thurman's thought as he struggled with the particular manifestations of violence and hatred that have marked the twentieth century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-330) and index.