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Tom
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Posted 3/8/2009 3:39 AM (GMT -6)

http://faith-theology.blogspot.com/

I’m definitely ordering some of this ‘Fellow’. Sounds awesome.

Any of you familiar with William Stringfellow?

Tom

might-be-don
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Posted 3/9/2009 3:10 PM (GMT -6)

Based on this alone, I like this guy ... "Nowadays, Stringfellow argues, the priesthood “is so radically misconceived that the clergy have become a substitute laity whose function is to represent publicly – in place of the laity – the presence of the church in the world.” Thus the clergy has become “a superficial, symbolic, ceremonial laity” (A Private and Public Faith, p. 38)".

In my view this extends from the "high church" right down to the "church at the mall" .

Anothe Stringfellow..."Much of what is now discussed and practised in the American churches as the witness of the Church does not really pertain to the witness of the Church to the life and action of God in the world, but rather to the witness of the Church to itself as churchly institution".

This guy is scary ( in a good way) .

^{The world's perfect, wouldn't change a thing.}

One Love
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Posted 3/9/2009 8:28 PM (GMT -6)

William Stringfellow

God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.

"I love, therefore I am in I Am. God is my life."

"God in Christ by His Spirit empowers, enables, energizes and enacts all Christian behavior and ministry as the dynamic expression of the life of Jesus Christ. Christianity is Christ. Christian living is the life and character of Jesus Christ lived out through the Christian." -James Fowler

Tom
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Posted 3/10/2009 11:08 AM (GMT -6)

So D, have you read him? Anybody read this guy?

Wipf & Stock has reprinted all his works (wipfandstock.com/author/26206. You can get a %40 discount off the retail price if you order through W&S and add the line STRINGFELLOW40 when you check out (that's the offer announced through Ben Meyers' blog).

But some of the titles look really good.

Tom

One Love
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Posted 3/10/2009 12:00 PM (GMT -6)

Never read him. But given his background and all...I'm quite interested!

God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.

"I love, therefore I am in I Am. God is my life."

Tom
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Posted 3/10/2009 1:12 PM (GMT -6)

Greg just told me he's read ALL of Stringfellow's works. Way ahead of his time (with the "powers" and "principalities" stuff).

And he was gay.

Whew.

T

One Love
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Posted 3/10/2009 1:15 PM (GMT -6)

Innnnnnnteresting.

Did he suggest one in particular to start with?

God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.

"I love, therefore I am in I Am. God is my life."

Tom
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Posted 3/10/2009 1:21 PM (GMT -6)

Naw, Greg didn't suggest anything. But Ben Meyers did. He said two books get you much of his best work are:

Free in Obedience and An Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land.

Tom

Post Edited (Tom) : 3/10/2009 1:26:38 PM (GMT-5)

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