Martin Luther King's “Letter from Birmingham Jail” as Pauline epistle

Malinda Snow

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Rhetoric and Communication Studies Race, History, and American Society Theological Perspectives and Practices

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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.

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