The Beloved Community: How Faith Shapes Social Justice from the Civil Rights Movement to TodayBasic Books, 31/07/2008 - 320 من الصفحات A noted theologian explains how the radical idea of Christian love animated the African American civil rights movement and how it can power today's social justice struggles Speaking to his supporters at the end of the Montgomery bus boycott in 1956, Martin Luther King, Jr., declared that their common goal was not simply the end of segregation as an institution. Rather, "the end is reconciliation, the end is redemption, the end is the creation of the beloved community." King's words reflect the strong religious convictions that motivated the African American civil rights movement. As King and his allies saw it, "Jesus had founded the most revolutionary movement in human history: a movement built on the unconditional love of God for the world and the mandate to live in that love." Through a commitment to this idea of love and to the practice of nonviolence, civil rights leaders sought to transform the social and political realities of twentieth-century America. In The Beloved Community, theologian and award-winning author Charles Marsh traces the history of the spiritual vision that animated the civil rights movement and shows how it remains a vital source of moral energy today. The Beloved Community lays out an exuberant new vision for progressive Christianity and reclaims the centrality of faith in the quest for social justice and authentic community. |
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The God Movement | 51 |
The Rise and Fall of SNCC | 87 |
The Dream | 127 |
Between the Times | 145 |
John Perkins and the Radical | 153 |
Dispatches from | 189 |
The Contours of an Activist Faith for the | 207 |
Acknowledgments | 217 |
127 | 230 |
Selected Bibliography | 273 |
Index | 283 |
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الصفحة 36 - Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use you.
الصفحة 22 - BLEST be the tie that binds Our hearts in Christian love ; The fellowship of kindred minds Is like to that above. 2 Before our Father's throne We pour our ardent prayers ; Our fears, our hopes, our aims are one, Our comforts and our cares.
الصفحة 127 - I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
الصفحة 1 - SMOs such as the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).
الصفحة 55 - For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
الصفحة 196 - All of this is on account we want to register, to become first-class citizens, and if the Freedom Democratic Party is not seated now, I question America, is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because our lives be threatened daily because we want to live as decent human beings, in America?
الصفحة 21 - And we are determined here in Montgomery to work and fight until justice runs down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.