Scholars@Duke
Richard Lischer

Richard Lischer

James T. and Alice Mead Cleland Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Divinity School
Divinity School
rlischer@div.duke.edu
Duke Box 90967, Durham, NC 27708-0967
Duke Divinity School, 3 Chapel Hill Drive, Durham, NC 27708

Scholarly Works - Other

King's statue a national challenge

Other The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Atlanta, GA) · 2011 Link to item Cite

Above all, a Christian witness

Other News & Observer · 2008 If an outside observer were to ask, "Which is the real [Martin Luther King Jr.]? Is it the body on the balcony, or the rising spirit of a great-souled leader?" today the church of God responds, "It is the spirit rising. The spirit of King endures not only ... Link to item Cite

Peculiar people

Other The Christian Century · 2003 ONE OF MY FAVORITE lines in modern "religious" fiction comes from Flannery O'Connor's Wise Bood. The redoubtable country preacher, Hazel Motes, informs his landlady that he is a preacher in the "Church Without Christ" ("where the blind don't see and the la ... Link to item Cite