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His ministry built upon the social gospel of the Protestant church at the turn of the twentieth century and his own family’s practice of preaching on the social conditions of parishioners. The early social gospel movement emerged during the rapidly industrializing American society following the Civil War.
Jun 18, 2018 · By analyzing King within the context of “the long social gospel movement” in addition to “the long civil rights movement,” we can explain his radical social mission in terms of race and class, but without marginalizing the Christian values at the core of his calling.
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At the time of his death in 1968, despite all the trials and tribulations he had endured, King remained a steadfast proponent of a radical social gospel for the world. By placing King in the stream of the long social gospel movement, we can discuss his radicalism within a religious context.
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The symbol of the movement, Martin Luther King Jr., became a global icon by assailing his country’s racial prejudice, condemning its economic injustice, opposing its war in Vietnam, standing with the poor and oppressed, expounding a vision of liberation, and being assassinated for doing so.
It became hard to remember that he was the most hated person in America during his lifetime. The black social gospel became more institutional and conventionally political after the King era; liberation theology grew out of the Black Power movement; and womanist theology grew out of black theology.
Sep 27, 2019 · Breaking White Supremacy: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Social Gospel. By Gary Dorrien. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2018. 610pp. $30.00 paper. Gary Dorrien, in over five hundred pages, shows how the black Social Gospel movement emerged from the Protestant Social Gospel, undergirded the most successful civil rights movement in ...
