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Birmingham revolution : Martin Luther King Jr.'s epic challenge to the church / Edward Gilbreath.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Downers Grove, IL : InterVarsity Press, [2013]Description: 1 online resource (210 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781461952169
  • 1461952166
  • 9780830884452
  • 0830884459
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Birmingham revolutionDDC classification:
  • 277.3/0826 23
LOC classification:
  • BR526 .G554 2013eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Prologue: King's Wittenberg moment -- Birmingham begins -- The making of Martin -- Montgomery miracle -- The road to revolution -- As Birmingham goes -- Eight white preachers, or with friends like these -- An angry Dr. King -- The jailhouse manifesto -- "My dear fellow clergymen" -- Taking it to the streets -- Dreams and nightmares -- After the revolution -- King among the evangelicals -- Epilogue: King's Epistle for today.
Summary: As with almost no other movement before or since, Christian people gave force to a social mission. And, remarkably, they did it largely through nonviolent actions. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s words and historic efforts as the Moses of this civil rights movement stand out as perhaps the most significant instance of a modern Christian leader acting in a prophetic role to instigate political change. In many ways "The Letter from Birmingham Jail" stands at the center of that movement. In this book African American journalist Edward Gilbreath explores the place of that letter in the life and work of Dr. King. Birmingham Revolution is not simply a work of historical reflection. Gilbreath encourages us to reflect on the relevance of King's work for the church and culture of our day.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)663388

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

Prologue: King's Wittenberg moment -- Birmingham begins -- The making of Martin -- Montgomery miracle -- The road to revolution -- As Birmingham goes -- Eight white preachers, or with friends like these -- An angry Dr. King -- The jailhouse manifesto -- "My dear fellow clergymen" -- Taking it to the streets -- Dreams and nightmares -- After the revolution -- King among the evangelicals -- Epilogue: King's Epistle for today.

As with almost no other movement before or since, Christian people gave force to a social mission. And, remarkably, they did it largely through nonviolent actions. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s words and historic efforts as the Moses of this civil rights movement stand out as perhaps the most significant instance of a modern Christian leader acting in a prophetic role to instigate political change. In many ways "The Letter from Birmingham Jail" stands at the center of that movement. In this book African American journalist Edward Gilbreath explores the place of that letter in the life and work of Dr. King. Birmingham Revolution is not simply a work of historical reflection. Gilbreath encourages us to reflect on the relevance of King's work for the church and culture of our day.