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The King Center in Atlanta organized a months-long series of events called “MLK50 Forward.” The King Center maintains a browsable digital archive of almost 1 million documents related to King.The takeaway: King begins to develop a theology that asks what Jesus has to say to the 20th century. Read “The Weaknesses of Liberal Theology,” written by King in 1948.The takeaway: Scholars say this essay shows King’s move away from the Baptist theology of his youth. Read “The Humanity and Divinity of Jesus,” written by King between 19.The takeaway: The theologies of King and Malcolm X were once polar opposites, but as both men matured, similarities in their ideas emerged. Read “The Shot that Echoes Still,” a reprint of James Baldwin’s April 1972 essay “Malcolm and Martin” with a new introduction by Michael Eric Dyson.The takeaway: Scofield charts King’s struggle with the idea of the supernatural divinity of Jesus. Martin Luther King Jr.,” a 2009 essay by Be Scofield for Tikkun, reprinted on on Oct. Read “King’s God: The Unknown Faith of Dr.
The takeaway: a look at the theology behind King’s 1963 “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” Read “MLK’s Philosophical and Theological Legacy” by Justin Dyer for the Witherspoon Institute’s “Public Discourse,” Jan.The takeaway: a conversation between civil rights historian Taylor Branch, author James McBride, journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates and the television writer David Simon, who are all collaborating on a series about King and the civil rights movement for HBO. Read “Telling the Story of Civil Rights: A Conversation in Baltimore” by Casey N.King is said to have carried a copy of Thurman’s book Jesus and the Disinherited during the Montgomery bus boycott. Howard Thurman, an African-American pastor who traveled to India in 1935 and met Mahatma Gandhi, was influential in King’s thinking about nonviolent resistance. Read “This Theologian Helped MLK See the Value of Nonviolence” by Paul Harvey for the Smithsonian, Jan.The edition will be added to and updated almost daily through April 4, 2018. The Atlantic has a monthlong special edition that looks at King’s legacy in many areas of American life.It is intended as a reporter’s starting point.
Special note: This is by no means a comprehensive list of those who can discuss King or have an opinion about his life and theology. This edition of ReligionLink features scholars, authors, religious leaders and others who can discuss King’s theological legacy. What was King’s theology and how did it develop? What was new and unique about his theology? Where do we see it carried on today? Who are the leaders that carry his theological banner? Is his theology evident in contemporary issues such as the Black Lives Matter and Dreamer movements, and how? How does his theology urge people to respond to contemporary issues? Many will note that in the five decades since his death, no other religious figure has emerged as such a singular and prophetic voice of religious and moral theology. Schools, think tanks, churches and other organizations will hold memorials, conferences, symposiums, concerts and more to mark the anniversary of King’s passing. local time, Memphis, Tenn., will mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination of the Rev.
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