The legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. : the boundaries of law, politics, and religion / by Lewis V. Baldwin with Rufus Burrow, Jr., Barbara A. Holmes, and Susan Holmes Winfield ; foreword by Clayborne Carson.

Format Book
Publication InfoNotre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, ©2002.
Descriptionxx, 316 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968--Political and social views.
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968--Views on religion.
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968--Views on law.
Religion and politics--United States. --History. --20th century.
United States--Politics and government. --1945-1989.
United States--Moral conditions.

Contents To witness in Dixie : King, the New South, and southern civil religion / Lewis V. Baldwin -- On the relation of the Christian to the state : the development of a Kingian ethic / Lewis V. Baldwin -- American political traditions and the Christian faith : King's thought and praxis / Lewis V. Baldwin -- King, the Constitution, and the courts : remaining awake through a great revolution / Barbara A. Holmes and Susan Holmes Winfield -- Personalism, the objective moral order, and moral law in the work of Martin Luther King, Jr. / Rufus Burrow, Jr. -- Beyond national borders : King, the United Nations, and global politics / Lewis V. Baldwin -- Epilogue / by Roger D. Hatch.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2002003990
ISBN0268033544 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0268033552 (pbk. : alk. paper)