Presentation
Howard Thurman on Reconciliation: Inciting Peace from the Inside Out
SHU Contemplative Community Peace Workshop
(2023)
Abstract
Reconciliation grows only from inner peace. When we slow down our lives with disciplined meditation and prayer, we can overcome pride and judgement and identify openings for relationship. Violence can be absorbed and hatred can be gentled when we renounce fear and retaliation and offer everyone, including oppressors, the vital self-gift of care, patience, and understanding.
Keywords
- Non-violence,
- spiritual practice,
- contact rhetoric,
- love discipline
Disciplines
- Arts and Humanities,
- History of Religion,
- Other Arts and Humanities,
- Ethics and Political Philosophy,
- Applied Ethics,
- Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies,
- African American Studies,
- Religion,
- Christianity,
- Ethics in Religion,
- Other Religion,
- Practical Theology,
- Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion,
- Rhetoric and Composition,
- Other Rhetoric and Composition,
- Rhetoric,
- Africana Studies,
- Social and Behavioral Sciences,
- Communication,
- Social Influence and Political Communication,
- Speech and Rhetorical Studies,
- Sociology,
- Politics and Social Change,
- Race and Ethnicity,
- Sociology of Religion and
- Social Justice
Publication Date
February 7, 2023
Citation Information
Jon P. Radwan. "Howard Thurman on Reconciliation: Inciting Peace from the Inside Out" SHU Contemplative Community Peace Workshop (2023) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jon_radwan/76/