The Preacher King: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Word that Moved AmericaOxford University Press, 20. 4. 1995 - Počet stran: 360 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. The Preacher King investigates Martin Luther King Jr.'s, religious development from a precocious "PK" ("preacher's kid") in segregated Atlanta to the most influential American preacher and orator of the twentieth century. To give the most accurate and intimate portrait possible, author Richard Lischer draws almost exclusively on King's unpublished sermons and speeches, as well as tape recordings, personal interviews, and even police surveillance reports. In King's published works, Lischer shows, King and his editors modified and polished his sermons in order to reach as wide an audience as possible. By returning to the raw sources, Lischer recaptures King's real, African-American, preaching voice and, consequently, something of the real King himself. He shows how as the son, the grandson, and the great-grandson of preachers, King early on absorbed the poetic cadences, the traditions, and the power of the pulpit. He traces King's coming of age from his rebellious teenage years (King once wrote that at thirteen he shocked his Sunday School class by "denying the bodily resurrection of Jesus") to his arrival in Montgomery, where he took on the role of "Brother Pastor" to his flock during the year of ministry before he burst into national prominence. Lischer shows that King was as profoundly influenced by his fellow African-American preachers as he was by Gandhi and the philosophers, and tracks King's themes of brotherhood and justice from the set pieces of his weekly sermons to his electrifying mass meeting speeches, demonstrations, and civil addresses. Lischer also reveals a later phase of King's development that few of his biographers or critics have addressed: the prophetic rage with which he condemned American religious and political hypocrisy. During the last three years of his life, Lischer shows, King accused his country of genocide, warned of long hot summers in the ghettos, and called for a radical redistribution of wealth. More than any other book, The Preacher King captures the crucial aspect of the identity of Martin Luther King, Jr. Human, complex, and passionate, here is a preacher who never gave up trying to shape a congregation of people that would be capable of redeeming the moral and political character of the nation. |
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... tradition of black protest in America . These and many , many others have been my teachers along the way . Some of the material in Chapter 8 has been presented in lecture form under the title , " Martin Luther King : Performing the ...
... tradition of black protest in America . These and many , many others have been my teachers along the way . Some of the material in Chapter 8 has been presented in lecture form under the title , " Martin Luther King : Performing the ...
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... Tradition , 93 5. The Strategies of Style , 119 6. From Identification to Rage , 142 7. The Masks of Character , 163 III THEOLOGY AND BEYOND 8. In the Mirror of the Bible , 197 9. The Ebenezer Gospel , 221 10. Bearing " The Gospel of ...
... Tradition , 93 5. The Strategies of Style , 119 6. From Identification to Rage , 142 7. The Masks of Character , 163 III THEOLOGY AND BEYOND 8. In the Mirror of the Bible , 197 9. The Ebenezer Gospel , 221 10. Bearing " The Gospel of ...
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... tradition , the African - American preacher harnessed prac- tical necessities to religious power . The black preacher fought for the kingdom of God every day of the week and then celebrated it ecstati- cally , even poetically , on ...
... tradition , the African - American preacher harnessed prac- tical necessities to religious power . The black preacher fought for the kingdom of God every day of the week and then celebrated it ecstati- cally , even poetically , on ...
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... tradition - and put it to work on America's enduring prob- lem of race . Like a preacher , he routinely cited the Bible as the authority for his social activities , and cast the Civil Rights Movement in the light of bibli- cal events ...
... tradition - and put it to work on America's enduring prob- lem of race . Like a preacher , he routinely cited the Bible as the authority for his social activities , and cast the Civil Rights Movement in the light of bibli- cal events ...
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... tradition that formed him as a preacher and the liberal theological tradition that shaped him as an American religious activist . He was both : a black preacher and a social reformer . He knew the vocabu- lary and spoke the language of ...
... tradition that formed him as a preacher and the liberal theological tradition that shaped him as an American religious activist . He was both : a black preacher and a social reformer . He knew the vocabu- lary and spoke the language of ...
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