Table of Contents

Contents: Foreword; Introduction. Part I Writings: On reading Stringfellow, Anthony Dancer; Living biblically; Interpreting the Bible; Biblical politics; The liturgy as a political event; The freedom of the Christian life; Loneliness, dread and holiness; A sacramental ethic; Christ and the powers of death; The nationhood of the Church; Mythology of the justified nation; A lawyer's work; Poverty, charity, and mission: East Harlem Protestant parish. Part II Reflections: Honoring the gift of life, Andrew W. McThenia, Jr.; On being a prophet and a theologian: reflections on Stringfellow and the East Harlem Protestant parish, Kenneth Leech; The vocation of the Church of Jesus the Criminal, Mark Thiessen Nation; Not vice versa: Stringfellow, hermeneutics, and the principalities, Bill Wylie-Kellermann; William Stringfellow's apocalyptic hermeneutics, Christopher Rowland; William Stringfellow and the politics of liturgy, Mark D. Chapman; Kindred minds, prophetic voices, Andrew Goddard; Speaking nonsense to power: the mission of William Stringfellow, Simon Barrow; Being biblical persons, Rowan Williams. Bibliography; Index.

About the Author

Anthony Dancer is Associate Vicar and Cathedral Missioner at Christchurch Cathedral, Nelson, New Zealand.