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In the beginning : the Martin Luther King, Jr. International Chapel at Morehouse College ; a festschrift in honor of Lawrence Edward Carter, Sr.
- Title
- In the beginning : the Martin Luther King, Jr. International Chapel at Morehouse College ; a festschrift in honor of Lawrence Edward Carter, Sr. / Echol Nix, Jr., editor. ; foreword by Hugh M. Gloster, Jr.
- Publication
- Macon, Georgia : Mercer University Press, [2015]
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- Description
- 206 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- In the Beginning highlights the history of the world's largest religious memorial to the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. Inspired essays on education, social justice, nonviolence, peace, ecumenism and civil and human rights are offered in honor of Lawrence Edward Carter, Sr., founding dean of the Martin Luther King, Jr. International Chapel.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Models of the scholar-activist type: Lawrence E. Carter, Sr. in the shadows of Benjamin Elijah Mays and Martin Luther King, Jr. / by Lewis V. Baldwin -- "Be the change you wise to see": an essay on education and personalism / by Thomas O. Buford -- Dr. Lawrence Edward Carter, Sr. and my journey to Christian allegory / by Delman L. Coates -- A letter to the dean: autobiographical reflections and lessons learned / by Jason R. Curry -- Lawrence Carter, Sr. and the Boston personalist tradition / by Norm Faramelli -- The Morehouse gospel: Howard Thurman, Martin Luther King, Jr., and prophetic Black Christianity / by Peter Goodwin Heltzel -- Living your dreams / by Barbara Lewis King -- Forgiveness as self-defense / by Rabbi Douglas E. Krantz -- "Correcting Jesus": a sermon / by Bill J. Leonard -- "Unexpected judgment": a sermon / by Otis A. Maxfield -- Morehouse College and the King Chapel ministry: a personal retrospective / by Echol Nix, Jr. -- The twilight of personalism at Boston University: the testimony of a participant-observer / by Harold H. Oliver -- The vocation of a modern-day prophet: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. / by Peter J. Paris -- African-American liberal arts education and the cultivation of virtue / by Samuel K. Roberts -- Cultivating a culture of peace / by Prince El Hassan bin Talal -- It's not easy being dean: from Kelsey to Carter and the case for the importance of religion in the historically Black college and university context / by Harold Dean Trulear -- The Civil Rights movement and the role of nonviolence in promoting healthy communities / by Edward P. Wimberly -- Ripping the veil, weaving meanings: the textures of therapeutics of African diaspora formation / / by Vincent L. Wimbush -- A biography of God's dream / by Virgil Wood.
- Call Number
- Sc E 15-1491
- ISBN
- 9780881465303 (alk. paper)
- 0881465305 (alk. paper)
- OCLC
- 911186269
- Title
- In the beginning : the Martin Luther King, Jr. International Chapel at Morehouse College ; a festschrift in honor of Lawrence Edward Carter, Sr. / Echol Nix, Jr., editor. ; foreword by Hugh M. Gloster, Jr.
- Publisher
- Macon, Georgia : Mercer University Press, [2015]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Added Author
- Nix, Echol Lee, editor.Mercer University Press.Morehouse College (Atlanta, Ga.)
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 15-1491