Name: The Preacher King: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Word That Moved America
ISBN: 9780195111323

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The Preacher King: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Word That Moved America

Richard Lischer

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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.

Book Details

Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publish Date: Feb 6th, 1997
Pages: 368
Language: English
Edition: Revised - undefined
Dimensions: 7.90in - 5.52in - 0.86in - 0.91lb
EAN: 9780195111323
Categories: • Christian Ministry - Preaching• Cultural & Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Bl• Cultural & Regional

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About the Author

Richard Lischer is Professor of Homiletics, the Divinity School, Duke University. He is the author of Theories of Preaching and co-editor of the Concise Encyclopedia of Preaching.