A Map Key to Martin Luther King Jr

Authors

Jordan Voges, Concordia Seminary, St. LouisFollow

Document Type

Article

Keywords

martin luther king jr, theological, humanity, christian, eschatology

Submission Type

Bible Study; Lecture; Sermon Prep

Abstract

When and if one hears the name Martin Luther King Jr. at a confessional Christian school like Concordia Seminary, it is often only in passing. The most well-known leader of the African-American civil rights movement is treated much like a roadside monument to a rare geological anomaly: something worth pointing out on the way to somewhere else, worth looking at and reading a paragraph or two about, but hardly a destination for contemplation in and of itself. In addition to the casual manner with which his presence is noted along the highway of theological dialogue, most references to the man are usually made with little more insight than the speaker gleaned from a high school American history course.

Disciplines

Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion

Submission Cost

Free

Submission Audience

Laity; Ministers; Scholars

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.

Recommended Citation

Voges, Jordan (2018) "A Map Key to Martin Luther King Jr," Grapho : Concordia Seminary Student Journal: Vol. 1: Iss. 1, Article 5.
Available at: https://scholar.csl.edu/grapho/vol1/iss1/5