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 incalculable effect on the fabric of daily life and the laws of the nation. As no other preacher in living memory and no politician since Lincoln, he transposed the themes of love, suffering, deliverance, and justice from the sacred shelter of the pulpit into the arena of public policy. He was the last great religious reformer in America. How the man who always saw himself as "fundamentally a clergyman, a Baptist preacher" crafted his strategic vision and moved a nation to renewal is the subject of this remarkable new book.
- ISBN10 6613098043
- ISBN13 9786613098047
- Publish Date 20 April 1995 (first published 1 January 1995)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 29 February 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Oxford University Press, USA
- Format eBook
- Pages 368
- Language English