William Stringfellow: Humanity

William Stringfellow was American theologian. Explore interesting quotes on humanity.
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“The Christian as revolutionary is constantly welcoming the gift of human life, for himself and for all men, by exposing, opposing, and overturning all that betrays, entraps, or attempts to kill human life.”

William Stringfellow

Source: William Stringfellow: Essential Writings (2013), "Jesus the Criminal" (1969), p. 64

Life , Men

“Christ as King means humanity free from bondage to ideologies and institutions, free from revolutionary causes as well, free from idolatry of Caesar, and, not the least of it, free from religion which tries to disguise such slavery as virtuous.”

William Stringfellow

Source: William Stringfellow: Essential Writings (2013), "Jesus the Criminal" (1969), p. 67

Religion , Christ

“The mark of the Christian is, simply, that he is a matured and freed human being. The direct political implication of this risen character of the Christian is that … the Christian is an incessant revolutionary. He is always, everywhere in revolt—not for himself but for humanity.”

William Stringfellow

Source: William Stringfellow: Essential Writings (2013), "Jesus the Criminal" (1969), p. 64

“While Babylon represents the principality in bondage to death in time—and time is actually a form of that bondage—Jerusalem means the emancipation of human life in a society from the rule of death and breaks through time, transcends time, anticipates within time the abolition of time.”

William Stringfellow

Source: An Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land (1973), p. 60

Life , Death , Time

“In this story, there is no other place actually known to human beings, except this world as it is—the place where life is at once being lived; there are no other places for which to search or yearn or hope—no utopia, no paradise, no otherworldly afterlife.”

William Stringfellow

Source: An Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land (1973), p. 48

World , Life , Hope , Search

“The Bible deals with the sanctification of the actual history of nations and of human beings in this world as it is while that history is being lived.”

William Stringfellow

Source: An Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land (1973), p. 47

World , History