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Friends Five-Year Meeting, Part 1: Jesus and the Religious Experience, 1969 July 20
In this sermon given at a Quaker conference, Howard Thurman gives words to religious experience as an encounter with the living God. For Thurman, religious experience is a moment in which one becomes personally and privately aware of God as a fact. This is an experience that cannot be controlled or willed, but rather it is given by grace, by God's own autonomy. Our responsibility is not about holding tightly to religious experience of the past, but rather to be open and prepared to encounter God in our lives, and to be transformed by divine presence.
Part of the Collection, Friends Five-Year Meeting (1969, Earlham College, Richmond, IN)
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Description by Rodell Jefferson III.
Recorded in Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana
Citation: Thurman, Howard, “Friends Five-Year Meeting, Part 1: Jesus and the Religious Experience, 1969 July 20,” The Howard Thurman Digital Archive, accessed July 9, 2024, https://thurman.pitts.emory.edu/items/show/59.
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By Howard Thurman (Uploaded by Duncan Hamra)In this sermon given at a Quaker conference, Howard Thurman gives words to religious experience as an encounter with the living God. For Thurman, religious experience is a moment in which one becomes personally and privately aware of God as a fact. This is an experience that cannot be controlled or willed, but rather it is given by grace, by God's own autonomy. Our responsibility is not about holding tightly to religious experience of the past, but rather to be open and prepared to encounter God in our lives, and to be transformed by divine presence.
Part of the Collection, Friends Five-Year Meeting (1969, Earlham College, Richmond, IN)
Tags:
Description by Rodell Jefferson III.
Recorded in Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana
Citation: Thurman, Howard, “Friends Five-Year Meeting, Part 1: Jesus and the Religious Experience, 1969 July 20,” The Howard Thurman Digital Archive, accessed July 9, 2024, https://thurman.pitts.emory.edu/items/show/59.