Martin Luther King, Jr. Nonviolent Strategies and Tactics for Social Change

by Ansbro, John J.

• ISBN13: 9781568331690
• ISBN10: 156833169X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-11-07
• Publisher: Madison Books

Summary

Examines his contribution as a philosopher and theologian to issues of racial and social justice and his drive to eradicate oppression through the doctrine of nonviolence.

Author Biography

John J. Ansbro is professor emeritus of philosophy at Manhattan College.

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii
Introduction to the Madison Books Edition	xvii
The Redemptive Power of Agape	1	(36)
The Early Struggle with Nietzsche's Revaluation	1	(2)
The Restoration of Faith in Love through Satyagraha	3	(4)
Love as Power to Achieve Justice	7	(1)
Eros, Philia, and Agape	8	(1)
Nygren's View of Love as Self-Sacrifice	9	(6)
Davis's Conception of the Necessity of Agape	15	(3)
DeWolf's Comprehensive Conception of Agape	18	(8)
Ramsey's Description of Christian Love	26	(1)
Thurman's Perception of the Range of Christian Love	27	(2)
The Three Dimensions of a Complete Life	29	(5)
The Vision of Humanity as a Unity	34	(3)
The Dimensions of Divine Providence	37	(34)
DeWolf's Conception of the God Who Sustains His Creatures	38	(22)
King's Critique of Tillich and Wieman	60	(3)
Davis's Conception of the God in Control of History	63	(8)
The Sacredness of Human Personality	71	(39)
The Appeal to Kant	71	(5)
Brightman's Moral Laws	76	(11)
Toward a Realistic View of Human Nature	87	(3)
The Division within Man	90	(2)
The Affirmation of the Individual in Existentialism	92	(14)
Racism---The Denial of Human Personality	106	(4)
The Moral Obligation to Resist Collective Evil	110	(53)
Thoreau's Noncooperation with an Evil System	110	(4)
Socrates' Defense of Civil Disobedience	114	(1)
St. Augustine's Limitations on Civil Disobedience	115	(2)
St. Thomas's Defense of Civil Disobedience	117	(2)
Dialectical Opposition for Total Truth and Freedom	119	(9)
Gandhi's ``Experiments with Truth''	128	(18)
Gregg's Conception of the Power of Nonviolence	146	(5)
Niebuhr's Demand for Resistance to Collective Evil	151	(9)
The Aggressive Nature of Collective Evil	160	(3)
The Social Mission of the Christian Church	163	(35)
The Requirements of the Theology of the Social Gospel	163	(20)
The Challenge and Limitations of Communism	183	(4)
The Beloved Community: The Ultimate Norm and Goal	187	(11)
King's Critiques of Other Responses to Collective Evil	198	(33)
Booker T. Washington's ``Passive Acceptance''	198	(4)
DuBois's Reliance on the Talented Tenth	202	(2)
Garvey's ``Back to Africa'' Movement	204	(7)
The Black Power Movement	211	(9)
The Black Muslim Gospel of Separatism	220	(4)
Other Immoral Responses to Collective Evil	224	(7)
King's Rejection of Violent Resistance	231	(36)
The Immorality and Impracticality of Violence	231	(9)
The Necessity of Exposing the Violence of Racism	240	(10)
The Immoral War in Vietnam	250	(17)
Notes	267	(69)
Index	336