Event Title
What's Love Got to Do With It?
Location
Henry M. Hogan Campus Center
Start Date
6-4-2019 1:30 PM
End Date
6-4-2019 2:45 PM
Description
Martin Luther King, Jr. is often identified as America’s greatest civil rights leader, known for his philosophy and practice of nonviolence. But King was also a Baptist preacher, a theologian, and one of the most important Christian social ethicists of the 20th century. Indeed, King’s philosophy of nonviolence is grounded in one of the central theological concepts in the Christian tradition: love. In this class, we will listen to portions of King’s sermon “Loving Your Enemies” to explore the ways King’s conception of love both draws on and departs from longstanding theological debates in the Christian tradition on the nature of love. We will then explore various criticisms of King’s conception from more recent theologies of love in the field of Christian social ethics.
What's Love Got to Do With It?
Henry M. Hogan Campus Center
Martin Luther King, Jr. is often identified as America’s greatest civil rights leader, known for his philosophy and practice of nonviolence. But King was also a Baptist preacher, a theologian, and one of the most important Christian social ethicists of the 20th century. Indeed, King’s philosophy of nonviolence is grounded in one of the central theological concepts in the Christian tradition: love. In this class, we will listen to portions of King’s sermon “Loving Your Enemies” to explore the ways King’s conception of love both draws on and departs from longstanding theological debates in the Christian tradition on the nature of love. We will then explore various criticisms of King’s conception from more recent theologies of love in the field of Christian social ethics.