Martin Luther King

King was one of the first American thinkers to reckon with the forces that we now call globalization. A Christian minister, King understood these forces to be the unfolding of God’s plan for humanity.

Objectives

After studying these texts, students should be able to

• Explain the meaning of King’s title
• List the three aspects of King’s “Triple Revolution”
• Discuss the challenges posed by these revolutions
• Explain the meaning of this quote:
  

  Through our scientific and technological genius, we have made of this world a neighborhood and yet we have not had the ethical commitment to make of it a brotherhood.

• Explain what King means by “the myth of time”
• Explain the point King makes by re-telling the story of Dives and Lazarus

Reading

• King, Remaining Awake During a Great Revolution (stanford.edu)
• Lecture Slides: Martin Luther King, Jr., “Remaining Awake….”

Listening

I will play this in class, so it won’t be on the quiz.

• Excerpt from “The Three Dimensions of a Complete Life,” A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., New York: Warner Books, 2000. [Available in GA View]

In-Class Quiz

• Martin Luther King