Martin Luther King, Jr.: Fifty Years On
Edited by Kenneth D. Johnson
To help commemorate Telos’s fiftieth anniversary, we focus on Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s intellectual contributions viewed fifty years since his death, with essays discussing his thought and drawing implications that might inform our conduct in the present. Readers will be treated to a diverse analysis of King’s legacy and its possible application for today, in support of Telos’s ongoing mission to promote the postsecular turn and in the hope of healing our contemporary political and cultural moment.
Introduction
Kenneth D. Johnson
Martin Luther King, Jr., and Ethical Leadership
Rufus Burrow, Jr.
Economic Democracy, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Black Church Tradition
David D. Daniels III
The Radical King: Democratic Socialism, Personal Idealism, Anti-Militarism, and Black Power
Gary Dorrien
A Friendship in the Prophetic Tradition: Abraham Joshua Heschel and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Susannah Heschel
The Shaping and Influence of King’s Political Theology and Worldview
Jamal-Dominique Hopkins
“Is there something wrong with that?”: The Transculturation of Martin Luther King, Jr., Schools in Germany
Harriett Jernigan
“A Moral Astigmatism”: King on Hope and Illusion
Vincent Lloyd
Fellowship of Love: Martin Luther King’s Legacy and the Renewal of the Labor Tradition
Adrian Pabst
On King, Resistance, Faith, and Despair
Kenneth A. Taylor
Looking Back at Martin Luther King, Jr.: An Interview with David J. Garrow
