The Luminous Darkness (Softcover)

By Howard Thurman

A personal Interpretation of the Anatomy of Segregation and the Ground of Hope. 
 
The Luminous Darkness is a commentary on what segregation does to the human soul. First published in the 1960's, Howard Thurman's insights apply today as we still try to heal the wound of those days.
Thurman bares the evil of segregation and points to the ground of hope which can bring all humanity together.
 
Howard Thurman the Founder of the Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples in San Francisco, the first interracial, interdenominational church in the United States, he was a spiritual mentor to Martin Luther King, Jr., and the author of more than twenty books which still speak to our condition today.
 

About the Author

Founder of the Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples in San Francisco---the first interracial, interdenominational church in the United States---Howard Thurman was Honorary Canon of the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York City. 

Poet, mystic, philosopher, and theologian, Howard Thurman authored more than twenty books. At the time of his death in 1981, he was Dean Emeritus of Marsh Chapel, Boston University, and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Howard Thurman Educational Trust in San Francisco. He also served as Dean of Rankin Chapel, Howard University, Washington D.C.; as professor at Howard University School of Religion, and as Director of Religious Life at Morehouse and Spelman College, Atlanta.

  • Softcover: 113 pages
  • Publisher: Friends United Press - Richmond, Virginia, Copyright:April 7, 2014
  • Language: English