Dilemmas of Religious Professional (III) (Hester Lecture) [Side A], 1971 Feb 11
Thurman, Howard, 1900-1981
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.
Primary Repository ID
test_394-301_A
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300000445298
Local Call Number
MSS 394
Legacy Identifier
394-301_A.mp3
Title
Dilemmas of Religious Professional (III) (Hester Lecture) [Side A], 1971 Feb 11
Creator
Date Created
February 11, 1971
Language
English
Description
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.
Author(s) of Description
Rainey, Tim
Content Type
Audio
Content Genre
lectures
Extent
45:39 min
41.71 MB
Keyword(s)
discipline of prayer
habit
Hester Lecture
inner life
inner light
love ethic
meditation
prayer
public and private prayer
silence
silent worship
Subject - Topic/Names
Subject - Geographic
Subject - Time Period
Related Material
Series Title
Dilemmas of the Religious Professional, Hester Lecture Series
Title [Parent Work/Source]
Howard Thurman audiovisual collection
Sublocation
Box 9
Rights Statement
Reproduced with the permission of the Thurman Family. Further reproduction, distribution, public display, or other re-use of any content beyond a fair use as codified in section 107 of US Copyright Law or other applicable privilege requires permission from the Thurman Family.
Transcript License
Institution
Emory University
Holding Repository
Pitts Theology Library
Sort Date
1971
