Living outside of the region, I am aware of the national span of racial prejudice and the virus of segregation that undermines the vitality of American life. From Preface of Luminous Darkness (1960): "The fact that 25 years of my life were spent in Florida and in Georgia has left deep scars in my spirit and has rendered me terribly sensitive to the churning abyss separating white from black.MLK was known to carry a copy of Jesus & the Disinherited with him wherever we went.Thurman’s impact on Martin Luther King, Jr.Mysticism and activism belong in vital connection with each other.Jesus and the Disinherited-finding the inward strength to stand up to oppression.Influenced by Ghandi’s approach to non-violence (soul force).Thurman’s ministry and theology represents the bringing together of these three themes: (1) divine common ground with all living things, (2) the devastating effects of social injustice on human personhood, and (3) sharing in the humanity of Jesus uniquely revealed in the history of Black suffering and the resilience of Black joy.
"The humanity we share with Jesus is one that cannot be reduced or dominated, but holds a value in union with God that goes beyond any attempt we can make to manipulate it for our own purposes.".Vitality of Christian faith and Black Christian resistance to slaveholder Christianity.
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