Howard Thurman's Mystical Logic: Creatively Encountering Oneness - A Logical Analysis of Thurman's Theology
Howard Thurman is described on his book covers, which were published during his lifetime, as a poet, mystic, philosopher, and theologian. Aside from this description, locating Thurman among other philosophers and theologians has been difficult owing to the description of his work as non-systematic....
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2017]
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Black theology
Year: 2017, Volume: 15, Issue: 3, Pages: 224-244 |
IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality FD Contextual theology KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KDG Free church NBE Anthropology |
Further subjects: | B
cosmic unity
B Mystic experience B Mysticism B Plotinus B perceptual framework B Intuition B Neoplatonism |
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Summary: | Howard Thurman is described on his book covers, which were published during his lifetime, as a poet, mystic, philosopher, and theologian. Aside from this description, locating Thurman among other philosophers and theologians has been difficult owing to the description of his work as non-systematic. In this paper, I argue that (i) Howard Thurman can be located, historically, among other philosophical theologians in general and more specifically as a precursor to Black Theology because of his allowance for his experience to inform him. Then (ii), I also assert that he was systematic in his approach to philosophy and that such an approach was through a mystic framework, which is described in detail here, for the first time. |
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ISSN: | 1743-1670 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Black theology
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/14769948.2017.1359008 |