As a theologian he helped develop the Boston school of personalism into a Christian social ethic at a time when social ethics was still a relatively new term. As an ecumenist he was involved in forming early social statements of the World Council of Churches. During his tenure at Boston University, he was responsible for the training of more African-American PhD students than any single university in the country. 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.[6]
Dorrien, Gary (2011). Social Ethics in the Making: Interpreting an American Tradition. Chichester, England: Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN978-1-4443-9379-8.
Further reading
Blackwell, Michael Dwayne (1995). Pacifism in the Social Ethics of Walter George Muelder. Lewiston, New York: Mellen University Press. ISBN978-0-7734-2283-4.
Burrow, Rufus Jr. (1999). Personalism: A Critical Introduction. St. Louis, Missouri: Chalice Press. ISBN978-0-8272-3055-2.