In the first chapter, “Jesus-An Interpretation,” Thurman acknowledges the failures of the contemporary Christian church to address the disinherited, particularly African Americans.

Over five chapters-'Jesus, an Interpretation,” “Fear,” “Deception,” “Hate,” and “Love”-Howard Thurman lays out a typology of challenges and phenomena (indicated in the chapter titles) that determine the lives of oppressed populations, who he refers to as “the disinherited.” He makes the case for Christianity as an authoritative and useful ideology in the face of oppression and argues for an interpretation of Jesus’s moral teachings as politically relevant and centered on “the love-ethic” (89). He was known for being a mentor to Martin Luther King, Jr., and King cited Jesus and the Disinherited as a text that profoundly influenced his work. Through Duke Chapel Reads, the Chapel aims to curate spaces for reflection and conversation based on a common book reading each semester.Howard Thurman was a notable religious figure during the social justice movements of the early 20th century, as well as an educator, philosopher, and writer. and his colleagues in the Civil Rights Movement-and I believe it is a book that can provide vision and insight for us in our time and during the season of Lent.' 'It is a book that helped sustain and guide the Rev. ' Jesus and the Disinherited stands out as a book that both critiques the injustices suffered by people facing oppression and also offers a spirituality of true resistance and reconciliation centered on the love of Jesus,' Dean Powery says. Fluker has been a pastor at United Church of Christ and Baptist churches as well as a chaplain in the U.S.

In addition to numerous academic appointments throughout his career, Dr. He is the author of The Ground Has Shifted: The Future of the Black Church in Post-Racial America and Ethical Leadership: The Quest for Character, Civility and Community (Fortress, 2009), and editor of Educating Ethical Leaders for the Twenty-First Century. He was founding executive director of the Andrew Young Center for Global Leadership Center and the Coca-Cola Professor of Leadership Studies at Morehouse College. Initiative for the Development of Ethical Leadership at Boston University School of Theology. Professor of Ethical Leadership, the editor of the Howard Thurman Papers Project, and the director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Fluker previously served as Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor Fluker is the editor of the multi-volume series The Papers of Howard Washington Thurman and is Dean's Professor of Spirituality, Ethics, and Leadership at Emory University's Candler School of Theology. Walter Earl Fluker, a scholar of the book's author, Howard Thurman. Powery hosts an online discussion of the book Jesus and the Disinherited with Dr. Walter Earl FlukerAs part of the Duke Chapel Reads series, Chapel Dean Luke A.

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