What Love Is Not: Lessons from Martin Luther King, Jr.
Focusing on the concept and practice of love sheds light on Martin Luther King, Jr.'s negative political theology. King was fundamentally concerned with what love is not, and it is this negation that colors his political vision. I do not take King's political theology to be either primaril...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2020]
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Modern theology
Year: 2020, Volume: 36, Issue: 1, Pages: 107-120 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
King, Martin Luther 1929-1968
/ Negative theology
/ Political theology
/ Civil rights movement
/ Love
/ God
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| RelBib Classification: | AA Study of religion CB Christian life; spirituality KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBQ North America NBE Anthropology NCD Political ethics |
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| Summary: | Focusing on the concept and practice of love sheds light on Martin Luther King, Jr.'s negative political theology. King was fundamentally concerned with what love is not, and it is this negation that colors his political vision. I do not take King's political theology to be either primarily derivative of American liberal Protestantism or primarily derivative of folk African American religion, or of some syncretism of these. Rather, I take King to be participating in a tradition of negative theology that pairs the critique of idolatry with attention outward and inward, to the marginalized and to spiritual life. |
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| ISSN: | 1468-0025 |
| Reference: | Kritik in "Love as a Habit (2020)"
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Modern theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/moth.12578 |