Bonhoeffer and King: Their Legacies and Import for Christian Social Thought

Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Martin Luther King Jr.-these giants of recent Christian social thought are here reassessed for a new context and a new generation. Each combined activism, ministry, and theology. Each took on public roles in opposition to prevailing powers of their time. Each professed a kind of Christian realism and ended as a martyr to his respective cause. Here many of the leading Christian social thinkers of our own day revisit the insights, causes, and strategies that Bonhoeffer...