Jesus and the Disinherited
First edition | |
| Author | Howard Thurman |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Jesus Christ, Biblical sociology, Christian theology |
| Publisher | Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, Beacon Press |
Publication date | 1949, 2012 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Book |
| Pages | 112 |
| ISBN | 0807010294 |
Jesus and the Disinherited is a 1949 book by African-American minister, theologian, and civil rights leader Howard Thurman.
In the book, Thurman interprets the teachings of Jesus through the experience of the oppressed and discusses nonviolent responses to oppression. The book developed out of a series of lectures that Thurman presented at Samuel Huston College in Austin, Texas, in April 1948."