In the beginning
Subtitle: the Martin Luther King, Jr. International Chapel at Morehouse College ; a festschrift in honor of Lawrence Edward Carter, Sr
By: Echol Nix, Jr., editor. ; foreword by Hugh M. Gloster, Jr
Contributors: Mercer University Press; Morehouse College (Atlanta, Ga.). Martin Luther King, Jr. Chapel
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Macon, Georgia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780881465303
Subjects: Essays; Festschriften
Description: In the Beginning highlights the history of the world's largest religious memorial to the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.  Inspired essays on education, social justice, nonviolence, peace, ecumenism and civil and human rights are offered in honor of Lawrence Edward Carter, Sr., founding dean of the Martin Luther King, Jr. International Chapel.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Models of the scholar-activist type: Lawrence E. Carter, Sr. in the shadows of Benjamin Elijah Mays and Martin Luther King, Jr. / by Lewis V. Baldwin; title: "Be the change you wise to see": an essay on education and personalism / by Thomas O. Buford; title: Dr. Lawrence Edward Carter, Sr. and my journey to Christian allegory / by Delman L. Coates; title: A letter to the dean: autobiographical reflections and lessons learned / by Jason R. Curry; title: Lawrence Carter, Sr. and the Boston personalist tradition / by Norm Faramelli; title: The Morehouse gospel: Howard Thurman, Martin Luther King, Jr., and prophetic Black Christianity / by Peter Goodwin Heltzel; title: Living your dreams / by Barbara Lewis King; title: Forgiveness as self-defense / by Rabbi Douglas E. Krantz; title: "Correcting Jesus": a sermon / by Bill J. Leonard; title: "Unexpected judgment": a sermon / by Otis A. Maxfield; title: Morehouse College and the King Chapel ministry: a personal retrospective / by Echol Nix, Jr.; title: The twilight of personalism at Boston University: the testimony of a participant-observer / by Harold H. Oliver; title: The vocation of a modern-day prophet: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. / by Peter J. Paris; title: African-American liberal arts education and the cultivation of virtue / by Samuel K. Roberts; title: Cultivating a culture of peace / by Prince El Hassan bin Talal; title: It's not easy being dean: from Kelsey to Carter and the case for the importance of religion in the historically Black college and university context / by Harold Dean Trulear; title: The Civil Rights movement and the role of nonviolence in promoting healthy communities / by Edward P. Wimberly; title: Ripping the veil, weaving meanings: the textures of therapeutics of African diaspora formation / / by Vincent L. Wimbush; title: A biography of God's dream / by Virgil Wood.