Strength to Love
Beacon Press · Hardcover · October 15, 2019
The classic collection of Dr.
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- Who it’s for
- These sermons bring Christian faith and social change into the same thoughtful conversation.
- Genres
- Christian Sermons, Christian Social Issues, Religion & Politics
- Published
- Beacon Press, October 15, 2019
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The classic collection of Dr. King’s sermons that fuse his Christian teachings with his radical ideas of love and nonviolence as a means to combat hate and oppression. As Martin Luther King, Jr., prepared for the Birmingham campaign in early 1963, he drafted the final sermons for Strength to Love, a volume of his most well known homilies. King had begun working on the sermons during a fortnight in jail in July 1962.
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While behind bars, he spent uninterrupted time preparing the drafts for works such as “Loving Your Enemies” and “Shattered Dreams,” and he continued to edit the volume after his release. Strength to Love includes these classic sermons selected by Dr. King. Collectively they present King’s fusion of Christian teachings and social consciousness and promote his prescient vision of love as a social and political force for change.
Faith in Action
These sermons bring Christian faith and social change into the same thoughtful conversation.
Come here for
- Christian teachings joined to social consciousness
- Love framed as a force against hate and oppression
Expect
- A layered vision of love as a social and political force
- Homilies shaped by faith, nonviolence, and resistance to oppression
Where it sits
| Christian Sermons | 93% |
|---|---|
| Religion & Politics | 43% |
| Christian Social Issues | 36% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Prayer & Devotion
- Christian Social Issues
- Discipleship
- Authors
- Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King
- Publisher
- Beacon Press
- Published
- October 15, 2019
- Format
- Hardcover
- Reading lane
- Prayer & Devotion