bookish_brain1 's review for:

Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman

5.0

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I don't think I can write a review that will do this book justice. It is a beautiful and timeless masterpiece. The writing is so elegant and stylized yet completely relatable and current. I kept having to remind myself that it was written in 1949. Martin Luther King, Jr. is said to have carried with him at all times two books: the Bible and Jesus and the Disinherited. You can definitely see Thurman's influence in his work. He writes from such a heartfelt, loving, and reflective place. He does an amazing job of contextualizing Jesus and building a framework around this idea that the gospel is a manual of resistance, and that Jesus is the natural ally of the disenfranchised and oppressed. I will return to this book again and again.