Man's Sin and God's Grace
Author: King, Martin Luther, Jr. Date: January 1, 1954 to December 31, 1960 How do we determine conjectured information? ? Location: Montgomery, Ala. How do we determine conjectured information? ? Genre: Sermon Topic: Martin Luther King, Jr. - Career in Ministry Download Document: View Document Details King describes human sin as “the tragedy of collective and social life” that requires God’s grace. This sermon was probably inspired by Gerald Hamilton Kennedy's homily “Sin and Grace.” 1 Invoking the story of the prodigal son, King challenges America: “You've trampled over sixty million of your precious citizens. You have called them ‘dogs,’ and you have called them ‘niggers.’ You have pushed them aside and kicked them around and pushed them in an inferior economic and political position. And now you have made them almost depersonalized and inhuman. And there you are in that far country of oppression, tra...