Bonhoeffer and King: Their Legacies and Import for Christian Social Thought edited by Willis Jenkins and Jennifer M. McBride (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2010).
The back cover states:
Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Martin Luther King, Jr. -- these giants of recent Christian social thought are here reassessed for a new context and a new generation. Each combined activism, ministry, and theology. Each professed a kind of Christian realism and ended as a martyr to his respective cause. Here many of of the leading Christian social thinkers of our own day revisit the insights, causes, and strategies that Bonhoeffer and King employed for a new generation and its concerns: race, reconciliation, nonviolence, political violence, Christian theological identity, and ministry. Along with the editors, the illustrious gathering of theologians, ethicists, and historians includes: Michael Battle, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Stephen R. Haynes, Charles Marsh, and Glenn Stassen, among others.In his essay, "Preaching and Prophetic Witness," Raphael Gamaliel Warnock wrote:
Authentic preaching can only happen when one asks, What does the reality of God's incarnation in Christ demand? As Bonehoeffer says, "The Kingdom of God is not found in some other world beyond, but in the midst of this world ... God wants us to honor God on earth ... and nowhere else. God sinks the kingdom down into the cursed ground."This is one reason that I Declare World Peace.
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