Lewis V. Baldwin
Lewis V. Baldwin (born 1949[1]) is a professor of religious studies at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.[2] He is an award-winning historian and author of a number of books on Martin Luther King, Jr.
Education
[change | change source]He was born and raised in Camden, Alabama.[3] In 1971 he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in History.[3] Baldwin studied at Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School from 1971 to 1975.[4] He received his Master of Arts degree in 1973.[4] In 1975 he received his Master of Divinity degree in Theology.[4] In the autumn of 1975 he entered the Ph.D. program at Northwestern University. He completed his degree in 1980.[4] In 1978 he was ordained a minister in Greenville Alabama by his father, Pastor L. V. Baldwin, Sr.[4] On June 16, 1987, Baldwin became a deacon in the United Methodist Church.[4]
Teaching career
[change | change source]Dr. Baldwin taught at the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio.[4] He has also taught at Colgate University and Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School in New York.[4] He was a professor at Fisk University and American Baptist College in Nashville before coming to Vanderbilt University.[4] He lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
Bibliography
[change | change source]Dr. Baldwin is the author of over 60 articles and several books. These include:
- "Invisible" Strands in African Methodism: A History of the African Union(1983)[4]
- Union American Methodist Episcopal Churches, 1805-1980(1983)[4]
- The Mark of a Man: Peter Spencer and the African Union Methodist Tradition (1987)[4]
- There Is a Balm in Gilead: The Cultural Roots of Martin Luther King, Jr.[2] (1991)
- To Make the Wounded Whole: The Cultural Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1992)[4]
- The legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.: the boundaries of law, politics, and religion (1992)[1]
- Freedom is Never Free: A Biographical Portrait of E.D. Nixon, Sr. (1992)[4]
- Toward the Beloved Community: Martin Luther King, Jr. and South Africa (1995)[4]
- (co-author with Amiri YaSin Al-Hadid) Between Cross and Crescent: Christian and Muslim Perspectives on Malcolm and Martin (2002)[5]
- The Voice of Conscience: The Church in the Mind of Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010)[1]
- Never to Leave Us Alone: The Prayer Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010)[1]
- "Thou, dear God" : prayers that open hearts and spirits, Martin Luther King, edited by Lewis V. Baldwin (2012)[1]
- "In a single garment of destiny" : a global vision of justice, Martin Luther King, edited by Lewis V. Baldwin (2012)[1]
Awards
[change | change source]He received the "American Theological Library Association Award" for his book "Invisible" Strands.[4] Baldwin won the "Midwest Book Achievement Award" of the Midwest Independent Publishers Association. This was for his book A Balm in Gilead.[4]
References
[change | change source]- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Baldwin, Lewis V. 1949-". OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. Retrieved 2 February 2016.
- 1 2 "Lewis V. Baldwin". Beacon Press. Archived from the original on 5 January 2016. Retrieved 2 February 2016.
- 1 2 "Lewis V. Baldwin". Vanderbilt University. Archived from the original on 17 January 2016. Retrieved 2 February 2016.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 "Dr. Lewis Baldwin". The King Legacy. Archived from the original on 21 January 2016. Retrieved 2 February 2016.
- ↑ Beth Bidlack. "Bibliography" (PDF). University of Chicago Library. Retrieved 2 February 2016.
Other websites
[change | change source]- Vanderbilt's webpage about Dr. Baldwin Archived 2016-01-17 at the Wayback Machine