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God and Human Dignity - The Personalism, Theology, and Ethics of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Paperback, Annotated edition)
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God and Human Dignity - The Personalism, Theology, and Ethics of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Paperback, Annotated edition)
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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.
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