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Program for Fall 2002

Greenfield Group

Fall Convocation, 2002

Topic: Howard Thurman, Mystic, Pastor, ProphetY A Theology for Living

 

Papers:

 

#1 AContextual Theology,@ short overview of the Life of Howard Thurman            

writer: Richard Erhardt

no respondent

 

#2 APastoral Theology,@  a study of Thurman=s meditations

writer: Anita Farber-Robertson

respondent: Fred Gillis

 

#3 AInteractive Response to Deep River and the Negro Spiritual, in word and song

writer/presenter: Robert Thayer

 

#4 Public Theology,@  Howard Thurman : Spirituality and Social Transformation@

writer: Tom Chulak

respondent: Nina Grey

 

Tuesday afternoon there will be one hour of writing time set aside in which participants will be asked to write a pastoral epistle, followed by sharing in small groups.

 

Change of Pace: Susan Suchocki-Brown                   Worship: Mon. Eve. Kendra

Anchor: Marta Flanagan                                                             Tues. Morn. Tracy

Tues. Eve. Bill Gardiner

Wed. Morn. Paul

Wed. Afternoon. Lucinda

Required Readings:

A Strange Freedom: The Best of Howard Thurman on Religious Experience

 Ed. Walter Fluker and Catherine Tumber, Beacon Press, 1998, 340 pages

(note: Berkshire Group liked it and Amazon readers give this book five stars)

and

Deep River and the Negro Spiritual Speaks of Life and Death (Friends United Press, 1975)

OR Jesus and the Disinherited (Beacon Press, 1996)both by Howard Thurman

 

Recommended:

Mithcell, Mozell, The Human Search: Howard Thurman and the Quest for Freedom.  Proceedings on the Second Howard Thurman Convocation  (New York: Peter Lang, 1992)

 

Pollard ,Alton, Mysticism and Social Change: The Social Witness of Howard Thurman, (Peter Lang: New York, 1992). 216 pgs.

 

Smith, Luther E., The Mystic as Prophet, (Washington D.C.: University Press of America, 1981)

 

Thurman, Anne Spencer For the Inward Journey: The Writings of Howard Thurman, as selected by Anne Spencer Thurman, his daughter, with him as he lay dying.  Includes large sections of Deep River.

 

Thurman, Howard,, With Head and Heart: The Autobiography of Howard Thurman, (Harcourt Brace & Co., 1979)

 

Film: AConversations with Howard Thurman@, BBC, 2 hours

Program chair: Anita Farber-Robertson

Committee: Rosemarie Smrzynski

 

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