Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Theology of Resistance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Theology of Resistance write by Rufus Burrow, Jr.. This book was released on 2014-11-19. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Theology of Resistance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It has been nearly fifty years since Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Appraisals of King's contributions began almost immediately and continue to this day. The author explores a great many of King's chief ideas and socio-ethical practices: his concept of a moral universe, his doctrine of human dignity, his belief that not all suffering is redemptive, his brand of personalism, his contribution to the development of social ethics, the inclusion of young people in the movement, sexism as a contradiction to his personalism, the problem of black-on-black violence, and others. The book reveals both the strengths and the limitations in King's theological socio-ethical project, and shows him to have relentlessly applied personalist ideas to organized nonviolent resistance campaigns in order to change the world. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Roots of Resistance
Roots of Resistance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Roots of Resistance write by William D. Watley. This book was released on 1985. Roots of Resistance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study paints a personal portrait of King's life, his dream, and his lifelong search for nonviolent ways to combat injustice.
God and Human Dignity
God and Human Dignity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook God and Human Dignity write by Rufus Burrow Jr.. This book was released on 1992-01-31. God and Human Dignity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Although countless books have been devoted to the life and work of Martin Luther King, Jr., few, if any, have focused on King's appropriation of, and contribution to, the intellectual tradition of personalism. Emerging as a philosophical movement in the early 1900s, personalism is a type of philosophical idealism that has a number of affinities with Christianity, such as a focus on a personal God and the sanctity of persons. Burrow points to similarities and dissimilarities between personalism and the social gospel movement with its call to churchgoers to involve themselves in the welfare of both individuals and society. He argues that King's adoption of personalism represented the fusion of his black Christian faith and his commitment not only to the social gospel of Rauschenbusch, but most especially to the social gospelism practiced by his grandfather, father, and black preacher-scholars at Morehouse College. Burrow devotes much-needed attention both to King's conviction that the universe is value-infused and to the implications of this ideology for King's views on human dignity and his concept of the "Beloved Community." Burrow also sheds light on King’s doctrine of God. He contends that King's view of God has been uncritically and erroneously relegated by black liberation theologians to the general category of "theistic absolutism" and he offers corrections to what he believes are misinterpretations of this and other aspects of King’s thought. He concludes with an application of King’s personalism to present-day social problems, particularly as they pertain to violence in the black community. This book is a useful and fresh contribution to our understanding of the life and thought of Martin Luther King, Jr. It will be read with interest by ethicists, theologians, philosophers, and social historians.
In an Inescapable Network of Mutuality
In an Inescapable Network of Mutuality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In an Inescapable Network of Mutuality write by Lewis V. Baldwin. This book was released on 2013-08-30. In an Inescapable Network of Mutuality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The scholarship on Martin Luther King Jr. has too often cast him in the image of the Southern black preacher and the American Gandhi, while ignoring or trivializing his global connections and significance. This groundbreaking work, written by scholars, religious leaders, and activists of different backgrounds, addresses this glaring pattern of neglect in King studies. King is treated here as both a global figure and a forerunner of much of what is currently associated with contemporary globalization theory and praxis. The contributors to this volume agree that King must be understood not only as a thinker, visionary, and social change agent in his own historical context, but also in terms of his meaning for the different generations who still appeal to him as an authority, inspiration, and model of exemplary service to humanity. The task of engaging King both in context and beyond context is fulfilled in remarkable ways in this volume, without doing essential violence to this phenomenal figure.
Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Foundations of Nonviolence
Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Foundations of Nonviolence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Foundations of Nonviolence write by James P. Hanigan. This book was released on 1984. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Foundations of Nonviolence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
