That Commonweal would name three traditionalist theologians on LGBT issues as having been under the influence of Stringfellow is odd. Carter Heyward would also deserve mention, even though her theology is more liberationist and not invested in orthodoxoy.
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But Stringfellow was her ally in the fight to admit women to ordained ministry in the Episcopal Church. Finally but not least would be Kenneth Leech. Stringfellow has been an important guide of my thinking for decades. I recall using his ideas when I was running a food box program and we had money at the end of the month to buy food or pay salaries.
The mission was to feed the poor, not employ the staff and had we put organizational survival above the mission, we would have become a principality and power rather than serve Christ. I am glad his ideas may have more exposure.
Stringfellow's Critique of Marxist Theologies
I was surprised that his book came out in the 's since I had thought I heard of him in the early 60's in high school? I read Stringfellow decades ago, and was instantly taken with, and inspired by, his insight into the Gospel. For years I kept an upside-down map of the world on the wall, as a reminder that one of the best descriptions of the call of disciples of the Christ is "these people who have turned the world upside-down.
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When I read him I think of my alma mater and how he carried and renewed its traditions. Stringfellow's Critique of Marxist Theologies. Scott Jackson - February 19, William Stringfellow, the feisty and often trenchant Episcopal lawyer-theologian, was no ordinary biblicist. He reproached evangelical conservatives for their literalist hermeneutics perhaps sometimes to the point of caricature and eschewed efforts to harmonize apparently conflicting biblical testimonies within a univocal and overarching doctrinal framework.
Travis McMaken - January 30, I was kickin' it on Twitter last Wednesday night while doing some grading and then some editing, and I caught a Twitter essay from Christopher Stroop in my feed that leaped off the screen at me.
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It pulls together a number of issues that have been bouncing around in my head, many of which I fit in the title. Stroop's reflections merge political and psychological analysis, and helps us understand how there could have been "good Germans" and how we might end op with "good Americans.
Anyway, I wanted to share this Twitter essay with you, gentle readers, because there are enough people who read DET or follow me and DET on social media who are within or close to evangelicalism and will be aided by this analysis.
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Stroop was gracious enough to allow me to collect his tweets and make them available. If you've made your way here on a mobile device, however, you would probably prefer to read this …. Travis McMaken - February 20, Note from the editor: Gentle readers, some of you may be old enough to remember what a transom is.
For those of you who are not, it is a window above a door pictured that one could leave open--even while closing the door--to encourage air circulation inside a building back before the advent multi-million dollar HVAC systems. Editors used to occasionally enter their offices and glance at the floor to find that some authorial hopeful had pushed a manuscript over the transom.
Well, the electronic version of such a thing happened to me with the below post.
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It was submitted anonymously for reasons that will become obvious when you read it. What we have here is an account of coming to a personal theological reckoning with dialectical theology. I have decided to publish it in accordance with the author's wishes in the hopes that it will encourage others of you who may be in similar situations. The author has greater facility with classical Greek than do I; I have discerned that this pi…. Travis McMaken - September 04,
