Roots of Resistance: The Nonviolent Ethic of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Hardcover)

How can Christians live and work in a world where the use of physical force against countless forms of human sin seems unavoidable? Martin Luther King, Jr.’s lifelong search for answers to this question is the central theme of a comprehensive study exploring the influences shaping his nonviolent ethic and catapulting him into the forefront of the civil rights struggle. “Nonviolence for King continued to be an evolving phenomenon, a fluid process rather than a static system,” observes author William Watley.