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Record Nr.

UNINA9910148634903321

Autore

Burrow Rufus <1951->

Titolo

God and Human Dignity : The Personalism, Theology, and Ethics of Martin Luther King, Jr. / / Rufus Burrow, Jr. ; foreword by Lewis V. Baldwin and Walter G. Muelder

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Notre Dame, Indiana : , : University of Notre Dame Press, , [2006]

©2006

ISBN

0-268-16100-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (361 pages)

Disciplina

230/.61092

Soggetti

Personalism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-329) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- King's Intellectual odessey: from Morehouse to Crozer -- Social gospel and Walter Rauschenbusch -- King and personalism -- King's conception of God -- The dignity of being and sexism -- Personal communitarianism and the beloved community -- Objective moral order and moral laws -- Use of moral laws and the Vietnam War -- The universe is friendly: social-ethical implications -- Afterword.

Sommario/riassunto

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.