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William Stringfellow on New Year

1928–1985 United States

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While Babylon represents the principality in bondage to death in time—and time is actually a form of that bondage—Jerusalem means the emancipation of human life in a society from the rule of death and breaks through time, transcends time, anticipates within time the abolition of time.

An Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land (1973)

If a congregation somewhere comes to life as Jerusalem at some hour, that carries no necessary implications for either the past or the future of that congregation. The Jerusalem occurrence is sufficient unto itself. There is—then and there—a transfiguration in which the momentary coincides with the eternal, the innocuous becomes momentous and the great is recognized as trivial, the end of history is revealed as the fulfillment of life here and now, and the whole of creation is beheld as sanctified.

An Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land (1973)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Stringfellow (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.