King believed that “Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds.

In putting Johannine Christianity beyond the pale, the Pharisees of the Fourth Gospel affirmed a religion of law and absolute monotheism. They rejected a sectarianism based on charismatic inspiration ...

For the evangelist, the Law of the Jews is "their Law" (15:25), and in his gospel even Jesus speaks of the Law to Jews as "your law" (8:17; 10:34). Moreover, John assumes that his readers are so far ...

And thus Jesus' teaching also is one that is fully in the legitimate tradition of Israel's teaching of the law. So in Matthew, not in any other gospel, we have Jesus saying he has not come to ...

The social gospel grew out of the abuses of industrialism ... His crusade lit a fire in the state of Tennessee, which passed a law outlawing the teaching of evolution early in 1925.