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The Beloved Community: How Faith Shapes Social Justice from the Civil Rights Movement to Today
Charles Marsh
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Description for The Beloved Community: How Faith Shapes Social Justice from the Civil Rights Movement to Today
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 320 pages, 16pp b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRCS; JFSL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 142 x 23. Weight in Grams: 446.
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 civil rights movement in the South in its early days. Standing courageously on the Judeo-Christian foundations of their moral commitments, civil rights leaders sought to transform the social and political realities of twentieth-century America. In The Beloved Community ... Read more
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 civil rights movement in the South in its early days. Standing courageously on the Judeo-Christian foundations of their moral commitments, civil rights leaders sought to transform the social and political realities of twentieth-century America. In The Beloved Community ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Basic Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780465044160
SKU
V9780465044160
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99-15
About Charles Marsh
Charles Marsh is Professor of Religion at the University of Virginia and Director of the Project on Lived Theology. He is the author of Reclaiming Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the award-winning God's Long Summer, and The Last Days. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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