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The preacher King : Martin Luther King, Jr. and the word that moved America

Today it seems extraordinary that a nation the size of the United States could have been so profoundly affected by the minister of a little Baptist church in Montgomery, Alabama. But at a turning point in American history, Martin Luther King, Jr., had an incalculable effect on the fabric of daily life and the laws of the nation. As no other preacher in living memory and no politician since Lincoln, he transposed the themes of love, suffering, deliverance, and justice from the sacred shelter of the pulpit into the arena of public policy. He was the last great religious reformer in America. How the man who always saw himself as "fundamentally a clergyman, a Baptist preacher" crafted his strategic vision and moved a nation to renewal is the subject of this remarkable new book
eBook, English, 1995
Oxford University Press, New York, 1995
History
1 online resource (xiv, 344 pages)
9780199771950, 0199771952
624349216
Preparation
Performance
Theology and beyond
Electronic reproduction, [S.l.], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010