What Love Is Not
Lessons from Martin Luther King, Jr
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20459983 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vincent Lloyd (Department of Theology and Religious Studies Villanova University 800 E. Lancaster Avenue Villanova PA 19085 USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 107-120 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern Theology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0266-7177 • E-ISSN: 1468-0025 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/moth.12578 |
| OpenAlex | W2985794229 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Focusing on the concept and practice of love sheds light on Martin Luther King, Jr.’s negative political theology. King was fundamentally concerned with what love is not , and it is this negation that colors his political vision. I do not take King’s political theology to be either primarily derivative of American liberal Protestantism or primarily derivative of folk African American religion, or of some syncretism of these. Rather, I take King to be participating in a tradition of negative theology that pairs the critique of idolatry with attention outward and inward, to the marginalized and to spiritual life
Idolatry · Martin luther king · Negation · Political science · Political theology · Politics · Protestantism · Theology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious studies · Theological Perspectives and Practices
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2024 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |