A Strange Freedom: The Best of Howard Thurman on Religious Experience and Public Life

By Howard Thurman

A spiritual advisor to Martin Luther King, Jr.; the first black dean at a white university; cofounder of the first interracially pastored, intercultural church in the United States, Howard Thurman offered a transcendent vision of our world. This lyrical collection of select published and unpublished works traces his struggle with the particular manifestations of violence and hatred that mark the twentieth century. His words remind us all that out of religious faith emerges social responsibility and the power to transform lives.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080701057X
• ISBN13: 9780807010570
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Thurman: Mystic for Today

I first became acquainted with the work of Howard Thurman when I found a leather-bound copy of Disciplines of the Spirit at an antique store. I was struck first by the practicality of his work, and then by the universality of his vision of spirituality and brotherhood. I am very excited to find this volume of his essays published. I hope it brings to many in 1999 and the millenium the practical, down-to-earth theology of this man who was a mentor to Dr. Martin Luther King