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Sinossi
Nei due sermoni "Cos'è l'uomo?" e. "Le dimensioni di una vita completa" Martin Luther King espone le basi religiose ed etiche della sua predicazione. Raccolti nel 1959 sotto il titolo "La misura dell'uomo", sono le prime parole di King ad essere stampate in volume e dimostrano come la fede e l'azione politica costituissero nel suo pensiero un'unità indivisibile, dove la seconda è conseguenza della prima. Così la Gerusalemme celeste descritta dall'apostolo Giovanni, nella quale lunghezza, larghezza e profondità sono uguali, diventa qui un'immagine di verità esistenziale e di equità sociale. E per questo esortare l'America, e tutta la civiltà occidentale, a chiedere perdono per i propri peccati e richiamare ogni singolo uomo all'amore e alla responsabilità verso se stesso, verso gli altri e verso Dio sono i due momenti dello stesso appassionato discorso. Il messaggio di Martin Luther King emerge da questi testi in tutta la sua forza e in tutta la sua estensione: riguarda la vita individuale quanto quella politica, non ha confini geografici ed è oggi attuale quanto lo era negli anni della lotta per i diritti civili.
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- Pagine: 52
- Data di uscita: 10-04-2013
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Measuring the contributions that Martin Luther King Jr. made to causes like civil rights, human rights, and international peace might be difficult. But it seems to me that a good way to start getting to know Dr. King and his contributions is reading what Dr. King actually said and wrote – without th Leggi tutto
I l-o-v-e Dr. King, don't get me wrong. This booklet was just kind of preachy. The irony. ^_^ I expected it to be more about civil liberties and human rights. It's more about religion.
This was a short read, taking me only an hour in the park one day. It is a spiritual essay discussing man’s place here on earth. I enjoyed it. One of my favorite parts of the book is when he talks about doing your best at all times: “He should seek to do his job so well that the living, the dead, or Leggi tutto
A collection of the written manuscripts of two of MLK's sermons/exhortations on the measure and nature of a man. In the first King explores what makes humanity human. It is profoundly shaped by Niebhur, but is not wrong. He explores man's animal nature, but also his impulse toward something higher, a Leggi tutto
Super quick read, repeated many of the themes found in Strength to Love. Another reader described this book as “preachy” which…yeah, it was still cool but not what I was expecting. I most enjoyed the second essay, the Dimensions of a Complete Life where he clearly outlines a triangle of concern for Leggi tutto
It's not often a book of such compact size has the ability to deliver a tremendous impact. Martin Luther King writes in a potent and eloquent style infused with divine wisdom. The Measure of a Man focuses on two points: 1)What is the worth of a person? 2)The dimensions of a complete life. His views a Leggi tutto
Two very short essays and a little text. In 'What is a Man?' , the first essay, the pastor tries and answer the question of what it is to be human. Religious, he obviously adopts the expected answer: a little less than divine, a little less than God, but crowned with glory and honour that is, a biolog Leggi tutto
With all my current Reconstruction and Civil Rights reading you cannot help dipping into Dr. King for further perspective. This was part of a recent speech that I listened to from 1962 that MLK would dust off now and again. Well worth your time to get a sense of what was important to him, his race, a Leggi tutto
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