The third alternative Thurman includes is armed resistance, which he ascribes to the Zealots. The nonresistance options were imitation, in which Thurman ascribes to the Sadducees, or isolation, which Thurman ascribes to the Pharisees. Thurman outlines three options: two forms of non-resistance and one form of resistance. Thurman explains the options of survival Jesus witnessed his people living in under the oppression of the Roman Empire. Specifically, Thurman emphasizes the fact that “Jesus was a poor Jew” (7). He continues to say that one must consider the society Jesus had lived in and how that society might shed light on the relationship between Jesus’ teachings and the disinherited and/or underprivileged. Thurman analyzes Jesus as a “religious subject rather than a religious object” (5). Content Ĭhapter 1 is Thurman’s interpretation of Jesus. notes that King studied Thurman's Jesus and the Disinherited during the Montgomery bus boycott. In his biography of Martin Luther King Jr., Lerone Bennett Jr. Thurman continued to speak on the theme, delivering addresses in 1949, 1951, 1952, 1957, and in 1959 delivered a 12-part sermon series in the Boston University's Marsh Chapel on "Jesus and the Disinherited." Smith Memorial Lectures at Samuel Huston College in Austin, Texas. A number of other addresses on the theme would take place in 1938, 1939, 1942, and 1947, with the lectures that became the book occurring April 11–16, 1948 as the Mary L.
On December 10, 1937, Thurman delivered the address “The Significance of Jesus to the Disinherited” as the leader of Religious Emphasis Week at A&T College of North Carolina in Greensboro.
He would deliver “Christianity and the Underprivileged” again in February 1937 at Union Church in Berea, Kentucky, and at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. The address was printed in the summer 1935 issue of Religion and Life, and forms the basis of Jesus and the Disinherited. In February 1932, Thurman gave an address in Atlanta on “The Kind of Religion the Negro Needs in Times Like These,” which was an early version of what would become “Good News for the Underprivileged.” In the summer of 1935, he delivered “Good News for the Underprivileged” at the Annual Convocation Lecture on Preaching at Boston University. The ideas encapsulated in the book had been developing for a number of years. The book developed out of a series of lectures that Thurman presented at Samuel Huston College in Austin, Texas, during April 1948." In the book, Thurman interprets the teachings of Jesus through the experience of the oppressed and discusses nonviolent responses to oppression. Jesus and the Disinherited is a 1949 book by African-American minister, theologian, and civil rights leader Howard Thurman.
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