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The Works of Howard Thurman

& Associated Media

Dr. Howard Thurman wrote, spoke, and traveled extensively.  Below is a list of his writings, along with publications about him.  We have included several publicly available video recordings.  We would like to note that the Pitts Theology Library and Candler School of Theology, both at Emory University, are developing The Howard Thurman Digital Archive, amassing a particular "audio collection of Thurman's sermons, speeches, lectures, and interviews."  You may find more information here:  The Howard Thurman Digital Archive.

Thurman's Writings in Chronological Order

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  • The Greatest of These (1944)

  • Deep River: Reflections on the Religious Insight of Certain of the Negro Spirituals (1945)

[also published as The Negro Spiritual Speaks of Life and Death (same year)]

  • Meditation for Apostles of Sensitiveness (1948)

  • Jesus and the Disinherited (1949)

  • Deep is the Hunger: Meditations for Apostles of Sensitiveness (1951)

  • Christmas Is the Season of Affirmation (1951)

  • Meditations of the Heart (1953)

  • The Creative Encounter: An Interpretation of Religion and the Social Witness (1954)

  • The Growing Edge (1956)

  • Footprints of a Dream: The Story of the Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples (1959)

  • Mysticism and the Experience of Love (1961)

  • The Inward Journey: Meditations on the Spiritual Quest (1961)

  • Temptations of Jesus: Five Sermons Given By Dean Howard Thurman in Marsh Chapel, Boston University, 1962 (1962)

  • Disciplines of the Spirit (1963)

  • The Luminous Darkness: A Personal Interpretation of the Anatomy of Segregation and the Ground of Hope (1965)

  • The Centering Moment (1969)

  • The Search for Common Ground (1971)

  • The Mood of Christmas (1973)

  • A Track to the Water's Edge: The Olive Schreiner Reader (1973)

  • The First Footprints (1975)

  • With Head and Heart: The Autobiography of Howard Thurman (1979)

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Posthumous

  • For the Inward Journey: Writings of Howard Thurman (1984)

  • A Strange Freedom: The Best of Howard Thurman on Religious Experience (1998)

  • Meditations of the Heart (1999)

  • Howard Thurman: Essential Writings (2006)

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Writings About Thurman

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Volume 1: My People Need Me,  June 1918 - March 1936 (2009)

Volume 2: Christian, Who Calls Me Christian, April 1936 - August 1943  (2012)

Volume 3: The Bold Adventure, September 1943 - May 1949 (2015)

Volume 4: The Soundless Passion of a Single Mind, June 1949 - December 1962  (2017)

Volume 5: The Wider Ministry, January 1963 - April 1981 (2019)

   

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