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Author: Kenneth L. Smith
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780817012823
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUpdated from the original version published in 1974, this book examines the thought of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the influences that shaped it. Kenneth L. Smith's firsthand knowledge of King's seminary studies provides the background for an incisive analysis of the influences of the Christian tradition.
Author: Sean Palmer
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2017-08-31
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 149829071X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShunned. Condemned. Controlled. Describing church, believers and nonbelievers deploy stinging terms to define an imperial, culturally privileged, and powerful American force. Church has become synonymous with shame, exclusion, and hostility. This is not the church of Jesus. American Christians are victims of a deliberate and shortsighted scheme designed to identify and defeat religious, cultural, and sexual Others. From the language of "makers and takers," to "if you're not for us, you're against us," to the continual suggestion that we are soldiers in a constant series of wars--the war on women, the war on the family, the war on Christians, the war on Christmas, the war on terror, and much more--Christians are near the heart of enmity. The New Testament, however, seeks to create an alternative community--a community devoid of fear, wherein God's love and acceptance are mediated to all people through the grace of Jesus. In Unarmed Empire, Sean Palmer reclaims the New Testament's vision of the church as an alternative community of welcome, harmony, and peace. Unarmed Empire is for everyone who's been misled about church. It's for everyone who feels blacklisted by believers, everyone who has been hurt. It's for everyone longing for a purer experience of church.
Author: Marc Andrus
Publisher: Parallax Press
Published: 2021-11-16
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 1946764914
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe “beautiful and wise account” of Martin Luther King Jr. and Zen Buddhist Thich Nhat Hanh, who “gave greater life to all of us through their remarkable friendship and shared vision of nonviolence” (Joan Halifax, author of Standing at the Edge). The day after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968, Thich Nhat Hanh wrote a heartbroken letter to their mutual friend Raphael Gould. He said: "I did not sleep last night. . . . They killed Martin Luther King. They killed us. I am afraid the root of violence is so deep in the heart and mind and manner of this society. They killed him. They killed my hope. I do not know what to say. . . . He made so great an impression in me. This morning I have the impression that I cannot bear the loss." Only a few years earlier, Thich Nhat Hanh wrote an open letter to Martin Luther King Jr. as part of his effort to raise awareness and bring peace in Vietnam. There was an unexpected outcome of Nhat Hanh's letter to King: The two men met in 1966 and 1967 and became not only allies in the peace movement, but friends. This friendship between two prophetic figures from different religions and cultures, from countries at war with one another, reached a great depth in a short period of time. Dr. King nominated Thich Nhat Hanh for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1967. He wrote: "Thich Nhat Hanh is a holy man, for he is humble and devout. He is a scholar of immense intellectual capacity. His ideas for peace, if applied, would build a monument to ecumenism, to world brotherhood, to humanity." The two men bonded over a vision of the Beloved Community: a vision described recently by Congressman John Lewis as "a nation and world society at peace with itself." It was a concept each knew of because of their membership within the Fellowship of Reconciliation, an international peace organization, and that Martin Luther King Jr. had been popularizing through his work for some time. Thich Nhat Hanh, Andrus shows, took the lineage of the Beloved Community from King and carried it on after his death.
Author: Charles Marsh
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2008-07-31
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 0786722193
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA noted theologian explains how the radical idea of Christian love animated the African American civil rights movement and how it can power today's social justice struggles 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 African American civil rights movement. As King and his allies saw it, "Jesus had founded the most revolutionary movement in human history: a movement built on the unconditional love of God for the world and the mandate to live in that love." Through a commitment to this idea of love and to the practice of nonviolence, civil rights leaders sought to transform the social and political realities of twentieth-century America. In The Beloved Community, theologian and award-winning author Charles Marsh traces the history of the spiritual vision that animated the civil rights movement and shows how it remains a vital source of moral energy today. 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.
Author: Jean Houston
Publisher: Tarcher
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780874774764
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the perspective and discipline that brings the human spirit into contact with the realms of the divine through the use of myth, experiential exercises and rituals.
Author: C. Anthony Hunt
Publisher:
Published: 2020-01-25
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781556054778
DOWNLOAD EBOOKI've Seen the Promised Land, will examine Martin Luther King, Jr.'s life, ministry and writings in light of an overarching concern with how his vision of the Beloved Community might be conceived, articulated and appropriated for the church and society today and into the future. It is proposed that King's ecclesiology and moral philosophy - and specifically the quest for the Beloved Community - were foundational to his overall theological project, and ultimately served as the framework for his conception of humanity, the ministry and mission of the Christian church, and hope for the world.
Author: Kenneth L. Smith
Publisher:
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 164
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKUpdated from the original version published in 1974, this book examines the thought of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the influences that shaped it. Kenneth L. Smith's firsthand knowledge of King's seminary studies provides the background for an incisive analysis of the influences of the Christian tradition. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author: David Atwood
Publisher:
Published: 2012-06-22
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9781478100362
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBut before a Global Beloved Community can become a reality, Beloved Communities must become a reality at the local level. This is the story of one man in Houston, Texas and his work to create a Beloved Community.
Author: Joy James
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 2013-05-01
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 1438446330
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSelected essays on radical social change.
Author: Nathaniel Gadsden
Publisher: Nathaniel Gadsden
Published: 2021-12-18
Total Pages: 102
ISBN-13: 9781893176324
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In Search of the Beloved Community" is the story of one African American man's journey to find God in the midst of racial strife and the modern Civil Rights movement in America. Rev. Nathaniel Gadsden connects his family upbringing, and the challenges he faced, to his self-discovery and the finding of his poetic voice as a man. The story is in essence the sum-total of a ministry born out of revolutionary ideas, Christian principles and hard lessons learned through trial and error. Rev. Gadsden is a follower of the principles and steps developed by Dr. Martin Luther King. He also believes that a true revolutionary spirit is needed and necessary in order to find that which Dr. King gave his life for, the Beloved Community, a community in which everyone is cared for, absent of poverty, hunger, and hate.
