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Dilemmas of Religious Professional, Part 3, 1971 February 11
The third installment of Thurman’s lectures concerns the religious professional’s prayer life. Thurman emphasizes that the act of praying must be more than a demonstration of professional skill, it is a practice, rather, of “cultivating the soul.” Thurman illuminates the dangers of limiting devotion to oratorical instrumentation or reducing the related practice of love to a technique. He encourages the religious professional to devote time to the private life and to employ meditation as a method of locating God within oneself and the ethics of the Gospel in everyday life.
Part of the Collection, Dilemmas of the Religious Professional, Hester Lecture Series (1971, Golden Gate Seminary, Strawberry, CA)
Tags: discipline of prayer, habit, Hester Lecture, inner life, inner light, love ethic, meditation, prayer, public and private prayer, silence, silent worship
Description by Dr. Tim Rainey
Recorded in Golden Gate Seminary, Strawberry, California
Citation: Thurman, Howard, “Dilemmas of Religious Professional, Part 3, 1971 February 11,” The Howard Thurman Digital Archive, accessed July 9, 2024, https://thurman.pitts.emory.edu/items/show/258.
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By Howard Thurman (Uploaded by Duncan Hamra)The third installment of Thurman’s lectures concerns the religious professional’s prayer life. Thurman emphasizes that the act of praying must be more than a demonstration of professional skill, it is a practice, rather, of “cultivating the soul.” Thurman illuminates the dangers of limiting devotion to oratorical instrumentation or reducing the related practice of love to a technique. He encourages the religious professional to devote time to the private life and to employ meditation as a method of locating God within oneself and the ethics of the Gospel in everyday life.
Part of the Collection, Dilemmas of the Religious Professional, Hester Lecture Series (1971, Golden Gate Seminary, Strawberry, CA)
Tags: discipline of prayer, habit, Hester Lecture, inner life, inner light, love ethic, meditation, prayer, public and private prayer, silence, silent worship
Description by Dr. Tim Rainey
Recorded in Golden Gate Seminary, Strawberry, California
Citation: Thurman, Howard, “Dilemmas of Religious Professional, Part 3, 1971 February 11,” The Howard Thurman Digital Archive, accessed July 9, 2024, https://thurman.pitts.emory.edu/items/show/258.