Over five chapters-"Jesus, an Interpretation,” “Fear,” “Deception,” “Hate,” and “Love”-Howard Thurman lays out a typology of challenges and phenomena (indicated in the chapter titles) that determine the lives of oppressed populations, who he refers to as “the disinherited.” He makes the case for Christianity as an authoritative and useful ideology in the face of oppression and argues for an interpretation of Jesus’s moral teachings as politically relevant and centered on “the love-ethic” (89). He was known for being a mentor to Martin Luther King, Jr., and King cited Jesus and the Disinherited as a text that profoundly influenced his work.
Howard Thurman was a notable religious figure during the social justice movements of the early 20th century, as well as an educator, philosopher, and writer.
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