William Stringfellow: Quotes about the world

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“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

“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

“Kierkegaard cautioned that the crisis for biblical faith concerning conformity to the world, in one form or another, occurs wherever the anomaly of an established church appears. In the United States, the Constantinian Accommodation has been marvelously proliferated. Practically all churches and sects are, in effect, established and, in turn, conformed to the dominant social philosophy or secular ideology or civic religion. Biblical faith, here, in consequence, is strenuously distorted and persistently ridiculed—in the name of God, of course.”

William Stringfellow

Source: An Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land (1973), p. 46

“This otherworldliness or antiworldliness is actually conformity to the world with a vengeance. And, for professed Christians, it is the most ignominious possible apostasy.”

William Stringfellow

Source: An Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land (1973), p. 44