Martin Luther King's “Letter from Birmingham Jail” as Pauline epistle
- 1 August 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Quarterly Journal of Speech
- Vol. 71 (3) , 318-334
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00335638509383739
Abstract
Martin Luther King's “Letter from Birmingham Jail” is an apostolic epistle in the Pauline tradition. Following the conventions of black American Protestantism, King discovered in St. Paul a type for himself and in St. Paul's letters a literary form that he could apply to modern situations. Like the Pauline letters, King's “Letter” depends heavily on scriptual allusions and may be seen as not only a letter but also as a sermon.Keywords
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