In this talk, Fr. Brandt Montgomery will explore the incarnational theology of Martin Luther King, Jr. to show how it formed much of the foundation of his civil rights philosophy.
For King, God becoming human in the Person of Jesus was to show all of humanity how to live and love as humans in community.
The Incarnation conveys all the lengths, widths, breadths, and heights Jesus will go to redeem humanity, disregarding every divisive distinction in bringing about God’s Beloved Community.
The Rev. Dr. Brandt Montgomery is the Chaplain of Saint James School in Hagerstown, Maryland and Vicar of Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church in Boonsboro, Maryland. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music, specializing in Trumpet Performance, from the University of Montevallo in 2007. He then received the Master of Divinity degree (cum laude) in 2012 from The General Theological Seminary, for which he wrote the thesis Time’s Prisoner: The Right Reverend Charles Colcock Jones Carpenter and the Civil Rights Movement in the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama. In 2021, Montgomery received the Doctor of Ministry degree from the School of Theology at the University of the South, his thesis titled The Development of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Saint James School of Maryland. His scholarly interests lie in the areas of American religious history, Episcopal Church history, the Oxford Movement and Anglo-Catholicism, the Civil Rights Movement, and practical theology.
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