Description: This unique theological biography traces the emergence
of William Stringfellow's theology and the place of biblical
politics within it. It highlights the centrality of life and work
to his theology, and the inseparability of one from another. It
tells the story of an ordinary life made less ordinary, radicalized
through becoming a biblical person. Amidst periods in America of
threat and prosperity (1950s), and later dissent and protest
(1960s), Dancer examines not only how Stringfellow held America to
account, but the way in which he offered a hopeful alternative in
which the place of the Bible and the world were both central. It
explores the way Stringfellow learned that the Bible makes sense of
us and not us of it. This is biblical politics--a radicalizing,
organizing engagement with the person and the world of which the
church seems to sadly have lost both sight and interest. The
advocacy of Karl Barth, his love of the circus, his scholarship to
LSE, the National Conference on Religion and Race, his love for his
parable of hope, Anthony Towne, and his prophetic confrontation
with Johnson's ""Great Society,"" all offer clues and insights into
this radicalizing force at work in his life. Yet it was a
life-threatening illness and personal confrontation with death in
many ways became the final point of radicalization that lead to the
production of Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange
Land-ethics as pertinent to today as they are to any age.
Endorsements: ""For me and many others, the life and work of
William Stringfellow were seminal in developing a biblical public
theology. In what Anthony Dancer calls 'biographical theology, '
this book lays out the social and political context that influenced
and informed Stringfellow's theology of public discipleship. I
commend it to anyone seeking for an authentic way of living
faithfully, and enacting what Stringfellow called 'biblical
politics.'"" --Jim Wallis author of Rediscovering Values: On Wall
Street, Main Street and Your Street ""Few American Christians have
borne such powerful witness to the word of God and the life of the
Christian as did William Stringfellow. While superbly situating him
in his own turbulent historical moment, Anthony Dancer also makes
clear how powerfully we need to listen to the voice of Stringfellow
today."" --William O'Brien Coordinator of The Alternative Seminary
""This book is a gift. In the absence of a definitive biography,
for which we may yet hope, Dancer provides us the most thorough
reflection to date on William Stringfellow's life. In the process
he establishes himself, not only as a biographic theologian, but a
voice in the Stringfellonian tradition. May his own summon a new
generation to 'Listen to this Man.'"" --Bill Wylie-Kellermann
editor of Keeper of the Word: Selected Writings of William
Stringfellow About the Contributor(s): Anthony Dancer works as the
Social Justice Commissioner for the Anglican Church in Aotearoa,
New Zealand and Polynesia. He is editor of William Stringfellow in
Anglo-American Perspective (2005).
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