{"product_id":"howard-thurman-and-the-quest-for-community-from-prodigals-to-compassionate-samaritans-paperback","title":"Howard Thurman and the Quest for Community: From Prodigals to Compassionate Samaritans - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid B. Gowler\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Gowler integrates parable scholarship with extensive research on Howard Thurman's life and writings to explore how Thurman's insights about the Prodigal Son and Good Samaritan parables provide a way forward in our quest for community. An online teacher's guide further explores how parables and visual art can heighten spiritual consciousness, demand an ethical response, and create and deepen community.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEndorsements\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Gowler's scholarship prepares us to enter Jesus's parables with greater vision and understanding. Accompanied by Thurman's insights and identification with Jesus as one of the disinherited, the parables' transformative significance confronts every reader.\"\u003cbr\u003e --Luther E. Smith, Jr., PhD, author, \u003cem\u003eHoward Thurman: The Mystic as Prophet\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"David Gowler's beautiful book \u003cem\u003eHoward Thurman and the Quest for Community\u003c\/em\u003e offers helpful insights into Thurman's wisdom and how we can apply it to our own broken lives and world. A book well worth studying.\"\u003cbr\u003e --Rev. John Dear, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Gospel of Peace: A Commentary on Matthew, Mark, and Luke from the Perspective of Nonviolence\u003c\/em\u003e, and director of BeatitudesCenter.org\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"David B. Gowler, one of our finest students of the parables, uses Thurman's sermons on the parables as portals to the understanding of communal and collective interaction and the deep-lying layers of personal spiritual truths.\"\u003cbr\u003e --Peter Eisenstadt, author of \u003cem\u003eAgainst the Hounds of Hell: A Life of Howard Thurman\u003c\/em\u003e, and affiliate professor of history, Clemson University\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid B. Gowler\u003c\/strong\u003e is Pierce Chair of Religion at Oxford College of Emory University and senior faculty fellow at the Center for Ethics, Emory University. A prolific author of both academic and public scholarship, his books on the parables include \u003cem\u003eWhat Are They Saying about the Parables?, Second Edition\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Parables after Jesus. \u003c\/em\u003e He is also coeditor, with Kipton E. Jensen, of \u003cem\u003eHoward Thurman: Sermons on the Parables. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e +\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 220\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51755160863008,"sku":"9780809156948","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/a6b3f6a33d4be9d80531998d516e971b.webp?v=1780051654","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/howard-thurman-and-the-quest-for-community-from-prodigals-to-compassionate-samaritans-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}