ABSTRACT
By 1967 King's vision and methods were seriously under challenge in some black communities. He claimed to recognize the psychological roots of Black Power and to value some expressions of it. His crucial criticism, however, was that its advocates failed to recognize its destructive capacities if it was divorced from Christian love. What is particularly striking, none the less, is that King's argument with Black Power was mostly conducted in nonreligious language, as if the audience for which he contended, mostly young and urban, might be less drawn by religious language.
