Creative Encounter Author:Howard Thurman "The substance of these pages, in essentially the present form, was given as the Merrick Lectures at Ohio Wesleyan University in March, 1954. In accordance with the spirit of the establishing of the lectureship, the lectures deal with an aspect of " experimental and practical religion." Modern American man tends to be ashamed of his feelings. T... more »o feel deeply is to seem emotional, sentimental, weak....
It is the purpose of this volume to give an interpretation of the meaning of religious experience as it involves the individual, totally, which means inclusive of feelings and emotions. Further, its purpose is to examine, somewhat, the effect that such experience has upon the complete life of the individual, both as a private person and as a member of society.« less