Description
In this third lecture on loyalty, Thurman discusses the conflict between the individual and the state. For Thurman, loyalty to something supremely worthy is the ultimate basis for self-respect and significance. Thurman's word for this ultimate cause is God. Thurman posits that the state can either make itself a vehicle of this human striving, or it can become a competitor to it; the state can attempt to move into the space that only God should occupy. At best, political expression is a vehicle for proving one's loyalty to God, the ultimate basis of personhood.
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Thurman, Howard
Date
1951-05-20
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Description by Rodell Jefferson III.
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Original Title
The Meaning of Loyalty, part 3: The State and part 4: Job's Dilemma (Fellowship Church), 1951 May 20, 27
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