Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Image of God

ISBN: 9780199843961 出版年：2009 页码：259 Wills, Richard W Oxford University Press

Hundreds of volumes have been written on the life and civil-rights work of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. One aspect of King that has received surprisingly little attention, however, is his theology. While it is common knowledge that King emerged from the black church tradition, and many have pointed to his religious lineage as a source for his social activism, few have actually examined the content of his religious beliefs and how they are related to his fight for African American civil rights. Richard Wills concentrates here on one particular piece of King's theology, imago dei -- the idea that human beings are made in God's image.