The preacher King : Martin Luther King, Jr. and the word that moved America
Lischer investigates King's religious development from a precocious preacher's kid in segregated Atlanta to the most influential American preacher and orator of the 20th century
1 online resource (xiv, 344 pages)
9780199771950, 9786613098047, 9781283098045, 9780199840502, 0199771952, 6613098043, 1283098040, 0199840504
719371254
Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Prologue; I Preparation; 1 Surrounded; 2 Apprenticed to the Word; 3 Dexter Avenue and "The Daybreak of Freedom, "; II Performance; 4 What He Received: Units of Tradition; 5 The Strategies of Style; 6 From Identification to Rage; 7 The Masks of Character; III THEOLOGY AND BEYOND; 8 In the Mirror of the Bible; 9 The Ebenezer Gospel; 10 Bearing "The Gospel of Freedom": The Mass Meeting; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index
English