Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s definition of Justice as Agape Love in action seeking to create, restore, and preserve God's "Beloved community" heals the historic split between love and justice. King's ethics and theology are heavily based on his understanding of the nature of community, a diverse, heterogeneous intentional cooperation between people for mutual coexistence. This work explores King's thinking about the "beloved community" as it relates to justice and love. The acceptance of King's description of agape love as all-embracing is extended and explored from both the prospective of the oppressed and the oppressor. My argument here is that the concepts of justice and love are both central to King's understanding of what community might become as the participants within the community become empowered, free to love fully, liberated from the bonds of injustice and secured by the assurance of equity. I argue that justice and agape love are central tenets of King's ethics as well as his theology because his ethics are based on or influenced by his theological understanding ofjustice as radical agape love in action, working to create, restore, and preserve God's "beloved community." This project describes a divine bridge in the mind of King between justice and love, which results in the "beloved community" characterized by social justice. Since King believed that justice is "love concretized," the focus of this dissertation is on the practical ways in which King bridged the traditional gap that many scholars create between love and justice. I examined the four major types of love generally espoused by Christians and designated as agape love, and I distinguish them from King's understanding of love to show that King's definition and understanding of agape love was different, unique and better in its application and use for the procurement of justice for all. After examining King's definition ofjustice as agape love in action, I explore the impact that King's definition of justice made in his pursuit for social justice as he dreamed of the beloved community and the status of that impact in present-day America. The historical overview and examination of the present-day status of justice called for the acknowledgment of the failings of society to build a sustainable just and equitable society. Since King's platform was the American church, I further identify what the church needs to do to validate King's definition ofjustice and to continue adequately and faithfully to represent God as the custodian of God's agape love (justice).