
William Stringfellow
Essential Writings
William Stringfellow(Author)
Orbis Books (USA) (Publisher)
Published on 1. December 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
200 pages
978-1-62698-049-5 (ISBN)
Description
William Stringfellow (1928-1985) Drawing on the biblical warnings against "powers and principalities: he leveled a prophetic critique against a range of institutions--the church, seminaries, economic structures, and the idolatries of the modern war-making state. Trained as a lawyer, he was a lifelong gadfly in the Episcopal church, his chronic ill health fostering his tendency to see the world in the light of Eternity. His great theme was the Constantinian compromise, the accommodation of Christianity to the values of the empire and the preservation of status quo. "My concern," he wrote, "is to understand America biblically,"--in contrast to the more common tendency, to understand the Bible "Americanly."
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Language
English
Place of publication
Maryknoll
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 208 mm
Width: 141 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
313 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-62698-049-5 (9781626980495)
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Bill Wylie-Kellermann is a United Methodist pastor who has served city parishes in Detroit, and has served as director of graduate theological urban studies for the Seminary Consortium for Urban Pastoral Education of Chicago, Illinois. A graduate of Union Theological Seminary in New York City, he is the author of Seasons of Faith and Conscience, and the editor of a Keeper of the Word; Selected Writing of William Stringfellow.