Reading Howard Thurman: His Practice of Interpretation Through Womanist Eyes by Smith, Shively T. J.
Reading Howard Thurman: His Practice of Interpretation Through Womanist Eyes by Smith, Shively T. J.

Reading Howard Thurman: His Practice of Interpretation Through Womanist Eyes

Reading Howard Thurman introduces us to both Howard Washington Thurman and the art of interpretation. It accomplishes...
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Author: Shively T. J. Smith
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Reading Howard Thurman: His Practice of Interpretation Through Womanist Eyes by Smith, Shively T. J.

Reading Howard Thurman: His Practice of Interpretation Through Womanist Eyes

$45.60
Reading Howard Thurman: His Practice of Interpretation Through Womanist Eyes by Smith, Shively T. J.

Reading Howard Thurman: His Practice of Interpretation Through Womanist Eyes

$45.60
Author: Shively T. J. Smith
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description

Reading Howard Thurman introduces us to both Howard Washington Thurman and the art of interpretation. It accomplishes both through the experience of a Black woman interpreter's journey with Thurman.

Womanist hermeneutics centers on family histories beginning with Black women's voices, communion with Spirit, forms of storytelling and story sharing, and the aesthetics of art, music, and nature as vehicles for interpreting the Bible. The commitments of womanist interpretation include community, life liberation, inclusion, and voice. In Reading Howard Thurman Shively T. J. Smith unfolds a conversation about and with Thurman. Smith explores Thurman's practices of interpreting his personal journey, spiritual experience, and community-building. He models interpreting life as our first resource for understanding what is meaningful, significant, and representative of the ties that bind, which transcend social barriers of nationality, internationality, race, and culture.

In the end, Smith's reading of Thurman through womanist eyes reveals "Thurmaneutics," his particular use of life to read the Bible. Reading Howard Thurman thus becomes a new primer for the study of biblical interpretation.



Author: Shively T. J. Smith
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 08/25/2026
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 8.61h x 5.91w x 0.91d
ISBN: 9781506493800

About the Author
Smith, Shively T. J.: -

Shively T. J. Smith is associate professor of New Testament at Boston University and a leading Howard Thurman scholar of her generation. She is the author of two books, Strangers to Family: Diaspora and 1 Peter's Invention of God's Household and Interpreting 2 Peter through African American Women's Moral Writings, and is the editor for The SBL Study Bible.

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