Thurman's Writings in Chronological Order

  • 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)

    • 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)

Writings about Thurman

    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)
   

Video Recordings

Coming Soon.