For this week and next (Monday-Thursday, eight posts in all) I'll be going chapter by chapter through An Ethic. And I'll risk the prediction that in every post there will be something--some quote, idea, insight or turn of phrase--that will blow your hair back.
This heads up is for new or more casual readers of this blog who might not know William Stringfellow and, thus, feel tempted to skip these posts. My encouragement: these next two weeks might be the best thing you read this month. Or year. Or decade.
Can you tell I'm excited?
(Some biographical background for those new to Stringfellow. Stringfellow was an American lawyer and a lay theologian. He was Episcopalian. Most of his books were written in the '60 and '70s, tumultuous years in America. Stringfellow is best known for his seminal analysis of "the principalities and powers.")
If George MacDonald was the great theological influence upon me during my college years, William Stringfellow is coming to be the theologian of my adulthood.
This week and next I hope you'll come to see why.
