The Centering Moment by Howard Thurman5/21/2023 ![]() Gary Dorrien, author of a magisterial three-volume history of liberal Christian theology in the United States, notes the strong Quaker influence on Thurman, attributing that influence with considerable reason to Rufus Jones (1863-1948), the Quaker philosopher, theologian, and social activists whose range of interests strongly prefigured those of Thurman. ![]() This is not a topic that has altogether escaped scholarly notice. The purpose of this essay is to probe the extent and depth of his allegiances, or alliances, to and with Quakers. 1955, 297) For someone of the breadth of interests and audience that Thurman possessed, making this explicit an identification with Quakerism was remarkable. The first sentence of the author’s identification read as follows: “Howard Thurman, dean of Marsh Chapel, Boston University, is a member of the Wider Quaker Fellowship.” ( FJ, Nov. One of the essays in that issue was excerpted from Deep River, a forthcoming book by Howard Thurman (1899-1981), eminent Christian African American mystical and social gospel theologian, preacher, and prolific author. In 1955, the inaugural year of the Friends Journal, a special issue was published on the theme of the Wider Quaker Fellowship. ![]()
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