Question

What did Martin Luther King mean by ‘agape’? Does it have any similarity with any one of Russel’s ‘passions’?

Answer 1

For Martin Luther King, the concept of agape stood at the center of both his spiritual belief in a knowable God and his assertion that love and nonviolence were essential to remedying America’s race problems. He defined agape as “purely spontaneous, unmotivated, groundless, and creative. It is the love of God operating in the human heart”