The Meaning of the Religious Experience (1976, [Disciples of Christ Retreat], Santa Barbara, CA)
Description
In this sermon series, Howard Thurman illustrates the all-encompassing nature of religious experience. The encounter with God is a renewing experience in which one's very center is changed, rippling out into all of one's life. It is in this whole-bodied commitment that one comes into the creativity and responsibility of ethical life. This sermon series contains a number of Thurman's most familiar images, i.e. the inward sea, the sound of the genuine, etc.
Date
1976
Contributor
Descriptions by Erik Mattson & Rodell Jefferson III.
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The Meaning of the Religious Experience, Part 1, 1976 July 23
In this first sermon, Thurman sets out to explore the meaning of religious experience, and the religious experience of Jesus specifically. For Thurman, religious experience is a private and intimate experience, and yet it also seems to involve everything that is. Religious experience is not static, but rather a dynamic experiencing that our minds cannot capture totally. Nevertheless, the mind tries to freeze it into doctrine, dogma, and theology – the language of rationality. But Thurman says…
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- The Meaning of the Religious Experience (1976, [Disciples of Christ Retreat], Santa Barbara, CA)