![]() ![]() The critical part of the book is the opening chapter "Concerning the Search" in which Thurman sets forth the goal of the book in broad, philosophical terms. ![]() The book consists of six short chapters together with a Preface. It is valuable to hear Thurman expound this position in this short, eloquent, and difficult book. ![]() Many people do not share Thurman's mysticism and sense of the continuity of all being. This quest makes Thurman a philosophical monist and with his strongly experiential, religious orientation it makes him a mystic. He discusses life as the quest by the lonely, finite individual to find meaning through understanding his relationship to other persons and, more broadly, to the whole of reality. In this short, spare book, Thurman described his quest to find unity and wholeness in life and the sources of that quest. However, Thurman described this 1971 book, "The Search for Common Ground" as "constituting my lifelong working paper". Thurman is best-known for his 1949 book, "Jesus and the Disinherited" which influenced Martin Luther King. Dorrien's book kindled my interest in Thurman. The African American religious thinker Howard Thurman (1899 - 1981) has been receiving attention of late with the release of a PBS documentary, "Backs against the Wall" devoted to Thurman's life together with news articles and books, including Gary Dorrien's study "Breaking White Supremacy: Martin Luther King, Jr. ![]()
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He has been a finalist for the Edgar Award and the Shirley Jackson Award, and has won an International Horror Guild Award and American Library Association's award for Best Horror Novel. ![]() In these stories, Brian Evenson unsettles us with the everyday and the extraordinary-the terror of living with the knowledge of all we cannot know.īrian Evenson is the author of a dozen works of fiction. ![]() ![]() A stuffed bear beats with the rhythm of a dead baby's heart a crew on a space mission are dying of exposure to alien dust and at the hands of a killer among them and a town keeps receding to the east as a man travels back to the father who drove him away. ![]() ![]() ![]() And why he never shows his art to anyone. ![]() Like why he clearly resents Chloe’s wealthy background. Just the teeniest, tiniest bit.īut when she enlists Red in her mission to rebel, she learns things about him that no spy session could teach her. 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