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标题：Never to Leave Us Alone: The Prayer Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
作者：Thomas, James R.
期刊名称：Currents in Theology and Mission
印刷版ISSN：0098-2113
出版年度：2012
期号：June
语种：English
出版社：Lutheran School of Theology and Mission
摘要：This book provides an introduction to Martin Luther King Jr. as a praying preacher. Lewis W. Baldwin believes that King's prayer life and posture toward prayer is an underdeveloped aspect of King's life and ministry. The author connects King's prayer life with his spiritual, theological, and ethical development, and importantly with his fight for human rights. Additionally, Baldwin offers a view of the language and style of prayer in the black Christian tradition in the United States. According to Baldwin, it is a style informed by spontaneity, improvisation, and a range of emotions-including laughter, tears, compassionate pleading, and wrathful condemnation. This reader waited for fully developed prayers, crafted and prayed by King, but sadly, we get mostly bits and pieces. Most of King's public prayers have not survived in written or recorded form. Nonetheless, Never to Leave Us Alone is a well researched book that is accessable to a wide audience. It is ideal for small congregational group discussions. Images of King at prayer complete the narrative.
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Never to Leave Us Alone: The Prayer Life of Martin Luther King Jr.

Thomas, James R.

Never to Leave Us Alone: The Prayer Life of Martin Luther King Jr. By Lewis V. Baldwin. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2010. ISBN-13: 978-0-8006-9744-0. viii and 159 pages. Paper. $16.95

This book provides an introduction to Martin Luther King Jr. as a praying preacher. Lewis W. Baldwin believes that King's prayer life and posture toward prayer is an underdeveloped aspect of King's life and ministry. The author connects King's prayer life with his spiritual, theological, and ethical development, and importantly with his fight for human rights. Additionally, Baldwin offers a view of the language and style of prayer in the black Christian tradition in the United States. According to Baldwin, it is a style informed by spontaneity, improvisation, and a range of emotions-including laughter, tears, compassionate pleading, and wrathful condemnation. This reader waited for fully developed prayers, crafted and prayed by King, but sadly, we get mostly bits and pieces. Most of King's public prayers have not survived in written or recorded form. Nonetheless, Never to Leave Us Alone is a well researched book that is accessable to a wide audience. It is ideal for small congregational group discussions. Images of King at prayer complete the narrative.

James R. Thomas

Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary