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

by Lischer, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780195111323
• ISBN10: 019511132X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-02-06
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Prologue	p. 3
Surrounded	p. 15
Apprenticed to the Word	p. 38
Dexter Avenue and """"The Daybreak of Freedom""""	p. 72
What He Received: Units of Tradition	p. 93
The Strategies of Style	p. 119
From Identification to Rage	p. 142
The Masks of Character	p. 163
In the Mirror of the Bible	p. 197
The Ebenezer Gospel	p. 221
Bearing """"The Gospel of Freedom"""": The Mass Meeting	p. 243
Epilogue	p. 267
Notes	p. 271
Bibliography	p. 323
Index	p. 339
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