Thurman then uses Jesus' historical context and relates it to the hardships encountered by African-Americans in the pre-civil rights era, emphasizing how Jesus' teaching can form practical solutions to overcoming the "three hounds of Hell" which he names, "fear, deception and hate." The central point is that Jesus is on the side of, was in fact, one of the disinherited and it isThis is a profound book by one of the prominent the civil rights leaders of the 20th century.
It provides a much needed prescription for the ways that the Bible and Jesus have been used by the powerful to oppress the weak and disinherited.
I wish it were required reading for every college freshman or even high school seniors.
How much of him was God?
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In India, Thurman was challenged: how can blacks still abide by the religion of their oppressors?
Paul was a Jew, but he was also a citizen of Rome. Reverence for the imago dei. Isn’t their Christianity treason to the colonized “colored people” the world over? "The disinherited will know for themselves that there is a Spirit at work in life and in the hearts of people which is committed to overcoming the world. The fact that Jesus was a Jew, and more, a poor Jew. There was a security that Paul enjoyed that Jesus did not. Later, through his book Jesus and the Disinherited, he foresaw a theology of American liberation based on the life of Jesus as a dispossessed Jew under Roman rule.
Howard reflects on the missionary zeal of Christianity. "It may twist and turn, fall back"In his seminal 1949 book, Jesus and the Disinherited, Thurman provided an interpretation of the New Testament gospels that laid the foundation for a nonviolent civil rights movement.
Immediately, on the first page, Thurman says, "Too often the price exacted by society for security and respectability is that the Christian movement in its formal expression must be on the side of the strong against the weak."
Jesus’ upbringing didn’t shape his message, that was decided already, but it makes him all the more our Savior because he can identify with us in our injustices. So many passages spoke with eerie relevance to current events.
Teaching 3: Fear, Deception and Jesus (chapters 2 and 3) with Lerita Coleman Brown (10 minutes) Reflection Questions: Silent time for reflection, pondering questions and journaling. In a time where some blacks feel that we are no closer to justice as a people than in the revolutionary times of the Civil Rights movement, reading this book will enlighten you on what's truly behind poverty, inequality, and injustice. Churches have been established for the Chinese, the Japanese, the Korean, the Mexican, the Filipino, the Italian, and the Negro, with the same theory in mind. I regret I did not read this as a younger man. 60I've been increasingly dissatisfied with church on the whole for the last few years, but was never able to really understand why. A love rooted in the "deep river of faith," wrote Thurman, would help oppressed peoples overcome persecution. The insistence on the salvation of both the oppressed and the oppressor comes from Dr. Thurman's loving interaction with the religion of Jesus.Thurman profoundly challenges readers to see our need to be forgiven by God and provides a picture of what human forgiveness can look like across social strata.Honestly one of the best books I've ever read. "In his seminal 1949 book, Jesus and the Disinherited, Thurman provided an interpretation of the New Testament gospels that laid the foundation for a nonviolent civil rights movement.
As a prominent religious figure, he played a leading role in many social justice movements and organizations of the twentieth century.“He recognized with authentic realism that anyone who permits another to determine the quality of his inner life gives into the hands of the other the keys to his destiny.”“Above and beyond all else it must be borne in mind that hatred tends to dry up the springs of creative thought in the life of the hater, so that his resourcefulness becomes completely focused on the negative aspects of his environment. But these are the ideas evoked by Thurman’s analysis of Jesus’ background; the Master was speaking to us on both a spiritual and temporal level, and it was a revolution not only for religion, but for the entire social order.
After his birth, Herod massacred children under the age of 2 in an attempt to kill him. For Jesus to love the Roman, the ruler, was to be regarded as a traitor to his own people (and by association, to God).
By the second page I realized I was going to need to grab a pencil to do some serious underlining.
And not just essential theologically. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! After all, the book had been free! Reviews There are no reviews yet. Let’s assume Jesus being a Gentile is a non-starter–why not be an aristocratic Jew, like Paul was?
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