Description
A landmark collection of Martin Luther King Jr.’s best known homilies and sermons—with selections from Strength to Love.
As Dr. King prepared for the Birmingham campaign in early 1963, he drafted the final sermons for Strength to Love, a volume of his most best-known homilies. King had begun working on the sermons during a fortnight in jail in July 1962. While behind bars, he spent uninterrupted time preparing the drafts for works such as “Loving Your Enemies” and “Shattered Dreams,” and he continued to edit the volume after his release.
Full Sermon List:
• A Tough Mind and a Tender Heart
• Transformed Nonconformist
• On Being a Good Neighbor
• Love in action
• Loving Your Enemies
• A Knock at Midnight
• The Man Who Was a Fool
• The Death of Evil Upon the Seashore
• Shattered Dreams
• Our God is Able
• Antidotes for Fear
• The Answer to a Perplexing Question
• Paul’s Letter to American Christians
• Pilgrimage to nonviolence
• The Drum Major Instinct
• The Three Dimensions of a Complete Life
A Gift of Love includes most of the classic sermons from Strength to Love, along with 2 new sermons. Collectively they present King’s fusion of Christian teachings and social consciousness, and promote his prescient vision of love as a social and political force for change.
Table of Contents
Foreword by the Reverend Dr. Raphael G. Warnock
Foreword to the 1981 Edition by Coretta Scott King
A Note on the Text
Preface
Chapter 1: A Tough Mind and a Tender Heart
Chapter 2: Transformed Noncomformist
Chapter 3: On Being a Good Neighbor
Chapter 4: Love in Action
Chapter 5: Loving Your Enemies
Chapter 6: A Knock at Midnight
Chapter 7: The Man Who Was a Fool
Chapter 8: The Death of Evil upon the Seashore
Chapter 9: Shattered Dreams
Chatper 10: Our God is Able
Chapter 11: Antidotes for Fear
Chapter 12: The Answer to a Perplexing Question
Chapter 13: Paul's Letter to American Christians
Chapter 14: Pilgrimage to Nonviolence
Chapter 15: The Drum Major Instinct
Chapter 16: The Three Dimensions of a Complete Life
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