God and Human Dignity: The Personalism, Theology, and Ethics of Martin Luther King, Jr.

by Rufus Burrow Jr.

Book Overview

Although countless books have been devoted to the life and work of Martin Luther King, Jr., few, if any, have focused on King's appropriation of, and contribution to, the intellectual tradition of personalism. Emerging as a philosophical movement in the early 1900s, personalism is a type of philosophical idealism that has a number of affinities with Christianity, such as a focus on a personal God and the sanctity of persons. Burrow points to similarities...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268021953
• ISBN13: 9780268021955
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"