The Voice of Conscience The Church in the Mind of Martin Luther King, Jr.
ISBN: 9780195380309 | 0195380304
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 9/23/2010
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Martin Luther King, Jr. is celebrated widely as the quintessential model of Christian activism in his time, but his understanding of and vision for the church has been surprisingly neglected. In this book, Lewis V. Baldwin contends that King was fundamentally a man of the church. Beginning with King's roots in Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church, Baldwin traces the evolution of King's attitude toward the church through his college, seminary, graduate school, and civil rights years. The emphasis is on King's concept of the church as "the voice of ... MORE
| Foreword | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. 3 |
| The Roots Factor: The Church as a Second Home | p. 13 |
| The True Ekklesia: Toward a Definition of the Church | p. 51 |
| A Balm in Gilead: The Black Church as Mission and Movement | p. 101 |
| An Uncertain Sound: The Ambivalent Soul of the White Church | p. 141 |
| Unrestricted Freedom: The Church and the World House | p. 181 |
| To Be Maladjusted: A Ki... MORE | p. 217 |
| Afterword | p. 251 |
| Notes | p. 255 |
| Index | p. 359 |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
Lewis V. Baldwin is Professor of Religious Studies at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. He is the author of five books on the life and thought of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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