He was credited by Martin Luther King Jr., a student of his at Boston (as well as Coretta Scott King in later years), as being an important influence in King's pilgrimage to nonviolence as a philosophy of social change. Among his major works are Foundations of the Responsible Society (1959) and Moral Law and Christian Ethics (1966). He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1965.
He was acknowledged by Martin Luther King Jr., a student of his at Boston (as well as Coretta Scott King in later years), as being an important influence on King's journey to nonviolence as a philosophy of social change. Among his major works are Foundations of the Responsible Society (1959) and Moral Law and Christian Ethics (1966). He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1965.