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Rufus Burrow - God and Human Dignity: The Personalism, Theology, and Ethics of Martin Luther King, Jr. - 9780268021948 - V9780268021948
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God and Human Dignity: The Personalism, Theology, and Ethics of Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Description for God and Human Dignity: The Personalism, Theology, and Ethics of Martin Luther King, Jr. Hardcover. 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. This book is of interest to ethicists, theologians, philosophers, and social historians. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: HRCM; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 165 x 26. Weight in Grams: 599.

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 ... Read more

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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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268021948
SKU
V9780268021948
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About Rufus Burrow
Rufus Burrow, Jr., is Indiana Professor Emeritus of Christian Thought and professor of theological social ethics at Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Reviews for God and Human Dignity: The Personalism, Theology, and Ethics of Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Burrow insightfully makes the case that King had learned themes of personalism and of the social gospel in its African American form from his family, from Benjamin Mays and George Kelsey at Morehouse College, and from George Washington Davis at Crozer Seminary, prior to King’s own studies at the seat of personalism, Boston University. . . . Burrow shows how ... Read more

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