Writings show King as liberal Christian, rejecting literalism
Many of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s most formative writings and sermons -- some dating to when King was a precocious 19-year-old seminary student in 1948 -- languished for decades in a battered, cardboard box.
A decade before her death in 2006, King's widow, Coretta Scott King, flew to San Francisco to ask Stanford professor Clayborne Carson to examine and write about the box's contents.
The texts, which illuminate the theological foundations that America's most celebrated social activist would repeatedly return to, are revealed in a book to be released today -- Martin Luther King Jr. Day -- by Stanford University's King Papers Project....
Dr. Steven J. Lawson | 6/23/2017
