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45 reviews
Diarmaid MacCulloch

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2005

Read it ... when you're ready
I give this book five stars because, even as an avid reader of history, it is rare for me to read a book this lengthy, detailed, and serious without ever getting bogged down, but I didn't with this book. It provides deep and informed insights into the culture and mindsets of people during this time. I liked, for example, the description of the late medieval "intercession industry" in which ...

Why We Can't Wait (Signet Classics)

28 reviews
Jr., Dr. Martin Luther King

Signet Classics, 2000

Transports you to an inside perspective of The Civil Rights movement
Eloquently written with careful word choice and countless metaphors. One cannot appreciate the civil rights movement and mourne its current state until they read this book.

Three Treatises

6 reviews
Martin Luther

Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 1990

Titles of the Three Treatises
Since no one has mention them, here are the three essential Lutheran texts: 1. An Open Letter to the Christian Nobility 2. The Babylonian Captivity of the Church . . . Luther's reorganization of the sacramental system 3. The Freedom of a Christian Luther takes on the Roman Catholic Church and none too kindly. Important to both the history of Christianity and the history of Germany -- and ...

April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Death and How It Changed America

5 reviews
Michael Eric Dyson

Basic Civitas Books, 2008

Excellent Book on the Legacy of 4/4/68
I remember, as a child, visiting my great-aunt and uncle in their mansion (they were millionaires) and seeing a magaizine whose cover depicted a watercolor of a burning city. Asking what was the reason for this, I was told that people had rioted after the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. Fifteen years after this, I remember asking my great-aunt why there were no blacks who were members of ...

The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

48 reviews
Martin Luther King Jr., Clayborne Carson

Grand Central Publishing, 2001

Required reading!
Martin Luther King, Jr., is without a doubt one of the most influential and pivotal figures in twentieth-century history. In addition to his work as a Civil Rights leader, his role as a father and pastor, he also was an extensively published writer. However, he never had the chance to write an autobiography in the traditional sense. We as readers in the present day and the future have lost the ...

Strength to Love

15 reviews
Martin Luther, Jr. King

Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 1981

Strength to Do Something requires the power and wisdom of love...
In 1983 I entered teaching in West Virginia and received this book as a present from one of my teachers. In two years I moved to South Central to teach at 93rd Street School then into the Salinas valley and now in Oxnard.It has proved itself to be of great use to a teacher. I say this by way of explaining that as an elementary teacher, one working with a variety of settings, children, cultures, ...

Theories of Personality (with InfoTrac )

6 reviews
Duane P. Schultz, Sydney Ellen Schultz

Wadsworth Publishing, 2004

Five Stars for Theories of Personality!
Schultz & Schultz's *Theories of Personality* is incredibly well written, concise, and a pleasure to read. The information is presented in a way that is both in-depth and easy to understand. This text provides background information on theorists, their theoretical contributions, and loads of current research on aspects of each theory. A+ for Schultz & Schultz! Highly recommended for all ...

Great Speeches by African Americans: Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Barack ...

7 reviews
James Daley

Dover Publications, 2006

Africa Receives Them Back.
This book was bought for a missionary in the rain forest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo for his schools. The schools are for the Batwa pygmy students. Their tribe in recent times was dominated by the Ekonda Master tribe. Now they are schooled together. This is for their English and History classes and their library. The missionary who started the schools through Mission Pendjua, Dr. ...

Martin Luther : Selections From His Writings

4 reviews
Martin Luther

Anchor, 1958

One of the best Lutheran books I've ever run across!
What a wonderful introduction to Martin Luther! If you're thirsty for his writings, this is the book you should start with. Searching for books by him usually turns up many expensive volumes, meant for preachers, not laymen. That's why I'm so glad I found this book. It's laid out perfectly, to give you a wonderful idea of who Luther was, the Reformation, and, most importantly, his ...

A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr.

14 reviews
Martin Luther King

HarperOne, 1990

"There are just laws and there are unjust laws..." *
Yesterday, the 40th anniversary of MLK's assassination, I spent the better part of the day thumbing through A Testment of Hope. The book is an old friend of mine. I've read and reread it for nearly twenty years now, both privately and with students in at least a dozen classes. What I like so much about editor James Washington's collection is its comprehensiveness. In a single volume, one ...

Parting the Waters : America in the King Years 1954-63 (America in the King Years)

37 reviews
Taylor Branch

Simon & Schuster, 1989

Moving storytelling
By most accounts, Branch's three volume history of the Civil Rights Movement is the authoritative account of Dr. King's life. But beyond the facts and history, this particular volume is an example of masterful storytelling. I read this book during my morning and evening commutes, stuffed between strangers on the train. Branch transported me to another time and place, at times on the brink of ...

Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision (Gender and American Culture)

3 reviews
Barbara Ransby

The University of North Carolina Press, 2005

a decisive American life--and a first rate biography
Ella Baker must be the most underrated figure in U.S. history. There are plenty of Presidents who have done less to shape their own times than Ella Baker. She decisively shaped two of the most important national civil rights organizations--the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference--and was the single most decisive figure in a ...

On Christian Liberty (Facets)

4 reviews
Martin Luther

Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2003

Freedom through Enslavement
Before being set free by the reading of Romans 1:17, Martin Luther was enslaved to the bondage of works righteousness. He was acutely aware of his need for salvation but sought it through the means of works instead of finding it through faith in Christ. Upon discovering the "righteousness of God" Luther was set free from his bondage and was able to become a slave to Christ. It is this freedom ...

I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World, Special 75th Anniversary Edition (Martin Luther ...

6 reviews
Martin Luther King

HarperOne, 1992

The essential King
"I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World," by Martin Luther King, Jr., is a fine collection of texts by this important figure. The book has been edited by James M. Washington. Coming in at less than 300 pages, this is a concise but meaty book. Washington includes King's most important texts: the "Letter from Birmingham Jail"; the "I Have a Dream" speech; his Nobel Prize ...

Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther

44 reviews
Roland H. Bainton

Plume, 1995

Roland Bainton's Luther
"Here I Stand" is both the keystone of Roland Bainton's series of Reformation studies, including his life of Sebastian Casellio, "The Travail of Religius Liberty" on Ochino, and the more condensed "Reformation of the Sixteenth Century"; it was in the years of my visits to Germany, the "1950's and 60's", regarded there as the best Luther biobgraphy ever written. All Bainton's books were ...

Luther's Small Catechism, with Explanation

14 reviews
Martin Luther

Concordia Publishing House, 2005

Vital Part Of My Move To Lutheranism
This small catechism, though not a deal clencher on its own, certainly played a vital role in my move from the contemporary American evangelical movement to the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. If you're looking for solid teaching on the Ten Commandments, the Lord's Prayer, The Apostles Creed, the Lord's Supper, baptism, and Confession and Absolution, then the writing in this book will aid you ...

Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and the Civil Rights Struggle of the 1950s and 1960s: A Brief History ...

2 reviews
David Howard-Pitney

Bedford/St. Martin's, 2004

Malcolm and Martin
This book presents the differences between arguably the two most famous civil rights activists of the fifties and sixties, as well as showing the convergence between their ideas and ideals toward the end of thier respective lives. It is readable, succinct and thorough. I highly recommend this book, especially to anyone who will be teaching this period in history to middle or high school students.

The Bondage of the Will

48 reviews
Martin Luther

Hendrickson Publishers, 2008

Charitable- no; funny and compelling- yes
It is safe to say that Martin Luther did not think that man's will is free. In some of the most funny, bitter, sarcastic, and theologically insightful pages found in any Christian work, Luther puts forth his position on "free-will" in The Bondage of the Will (also found in "Luther's Works," vol. 33, "Career of the Reformer pt. III). The title itself should show the reader which side of the ...

Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings (w/ CD-ROM)

7 reviews

Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2005

The Power and the Wisdom of God (1 Corinthians 1:24)
This is an incredible volume and, in my opinion, a better introduction to Luther than "Selections From His Writings". It contains a number of his better-known works including the infinitely worthy "Smaller Catechism," the infamous "95 Theses," and the thesis chapters from his personal favorite, "The Bondage of the Will." Alongside these monumental works are set lesser-known, but equally ...

On Being a Theologian of the Cross: Reflections on Luther's Heidelberg Disputation, 1518 (Theology)

18 reviews
Gerhard O. Forde, Martin Luther

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1997

The Love of God . . . Creates
"The Love of God does not first discover but creates what is pleasing to it." Thesis 28. My dog-eared copy of this book got that way through reading it during my daily commutes on the train through Heidelberg, Germany, where Luther delivered his Disputation in front of his Augustinian Order. As an Army Chaplain, and familiar with much suffering, I've found deep solace in knowing that ...

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