Join Paul Harvey, a Distinguished Professor of History, as he explores the insightful writings of Howard Thurman on race and religion. They discuss Thurman's unique spiritual journey influenced by personal trauma and nature. Harvey delves into Thurman's legacy of nonviolence and his pivotal work 'Jesus and the Disinherited,' which shaped Black liberation theology. The conversation highlights the necessity of understanding Thurman critically, connecting spirituality with social justice, and affirming the importance of personal relationships in the fight for equality.
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Thurman's Negative Church Experience
At age seven, Thurman's father figure died, and the preacher's harsh words at the funeral angered him.
This negative experience deeply impacted Thurman's view of the institutional church.
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Roots of Thurman's Anger
Thurman's anger towards the church stemmed from his father figure's exclusion and the church's racist legacy.
His anger from childhood resurfaced as he witnessed racism within the institutional church.
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Early Influences on Thurman
Thurman's grandmother, a former slave, emphasized their identity as God's children, not slaves.
This, along with his connection to nature, became cornerstones of his spirituality and informed 'Jesus and the Disinherited'.
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Paul Harvey (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1992) researches, writes, and teaches in the field of American history from the 16th century to the present. He is the author/editor of thirteen books and numerous articles, and the is Distinguished Professor of History and Presidential Teaching Scholar at the University of Colarado, Colarado Springs.
Paul Harvey is the author of Howard Thurman and the Disinherited: A Religious Biography (Eerdmans Press, 2020), as well as Christianity and Race in the American South: A History (University of Chicago Press, 2016), and Bounds of Their Habitation: Religion and Race in American History (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017). Professor Harvey's recent co-authored book The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America, was named a "Top 25 Outstanding Academic Title" by Choice magazine in 2013, an award selected from among the several thousand academic books published in the previous year.
Harvey's narrative history survey Through the Storm, Through the Night: A History of African American Christianity (Rowman & Littlefield publishers) was published in 2011, and also received the designation of "Outstanding Academic Title" by Choice Magazine, in 2012. Harvey is also co-editor of the reference work The Columbia Guide to Religion in American History
Other publications of note include Redeeming the South: Religious Cultures and Racial Identities Among Southern Baptists, 1865-1925, published in 1997 by the University of North Carolina Press, and in 2005 Freedom's Coming: Religious Cultures and the Shaping of the South from the Civil War through the Civil Rights Era. Paul is also the co-editor (with Philip Goff) of Themes in Religion and American Culture (2004), and The Columbia Documentary History of Religion in North America Since 1945 (2005).
Harvey was given the title as Distinguished Professor of History by the University of Colorado in 2017. In the same year he was designated to give the Shriver Lectures in American History at Stetson University in Florida; those lectures later were published as the book Southern Religion in the World: Three Stories.
In 2008, Harvey was designated as the Lamar Lecturer in Southern History at Mercer University; the lectures he gave there have breen published at Moses, Jesus and the Trickster in the Evangelical South (University of Georgia Press). In 2009, Harvey was named a Presidential Teaching Scholar at the University of Colorado, and from 2007-09, he served as the Senior Mentor to the Young Scholars in American Religion program at IUPUI in Indianapolis.
In 2006, Harvey received the Faculty Award for Excellence in Research from the University of Colorado. In 2008, Harvey received the Outstanding Teaching Award from UCCS. In 2009, Harvey received the designation of Presidential Teaching Scholar at the University of Colorado, a system-wide award recognizing specially designated scholar/teachers throughout the University of Colorado system. Paul has also received the UCCS Chancellor's Award, and served as a Senior Mentor to the Young Scholars in American Religion Program at IUPUI in Indianapolis.
For more about Paul Harvey go to [http://paulharvey.org/](http://paulharvey.org//)