A Lasting Prophetic Legacy

"This is a rich and groundbreaking study of a major religious leader in the Western world who challenged humanity around the need to employ peaceful means as an avenue to global community. Highlighting Martin Luther King Jr. and his associations with leaders in the World Council of Churches, this book adds immeasurably to our understanding of both King the devoted churchman and the global King. I recommend it highly."

--Lewis V. Baldwin, Professor of Religious Studies, Vanderbilt University



"This book is a welcome addition to the still evolving globalization genre in King studies, making it clear that King was, from beginning to end, concerned to eradicate racism and militarism not only in the US, but throughout the world. A Lasting Prophetic Legacy is must reading for the serious student on King, but it will also appeal to a more general audience of readers."

--Rufus Burrow Jr., author of Martin Luther King, Jr. for Armchair Theologians



"Thomas Mulhall provides us with an invigorating engagement of essential questions and conceptually refreshing horizons of how King should be understood in the twenty-first century. He places King in conversation with the ecumenical church and notes the importance of his commitment to world peace, especially his work to dismantle apartheid in South Africa. It promises to reorient the way King's life and thought are interpreted. A must-read for students of King's thought."

--Noel Leo Erskine, author of King Among the Theologians



"Challenging a popular perception of King as merely an American civil rights leader, this work shows King's struggles against racism and war had a global scope by building a broad coalition of conscience among different races, religious groups, and nationalities. With its primary focus on King's relationship with the World Council of Churches, this book presents a wonderful resource for the study of King's global public ministry and his ecumenism that advocates both spiritual transformation and social justice."

--Hak Joon Lee, Professor of Theology and Ethics, Fuller Theological Seminary