bartendm 's review for:

Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman

4.0

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There aren't too many books written in the 1930s that can still speak to us so vividly now. This tiny book is dense and you will have to go slow with it, because there is so much content. Howard Thurman was was a pacifist who visited with Ghandi and became a mentor to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. MLK traveled with this book and read it many times. It was interesting just to see what had such a big influence in his life. Part of what makes it so timeless is Thurman's evaluation of Christianity from a Black man's perspective, and it differs from traditional White American Christianity's interpretations of Jesus. Thurman's interpretation feels right and true because Jesus was a poor Jew under Roman occupation, he was the disinherited in his time.