An astute, outspoken lay theologian talks to Christians about how they can today find freedom in obedience to Christ's gospel and about the urgent necessity of trying to live this kind of freedom now. He insists that his readers look realistically and relentlessly at their own condition, at the condition of the church — and that they see how these relate and compare to Christ's gospel. His book, based on certain passages from Hebrews, thus becomes a call to freedom and a call to revolutionary Christianity.

William Stringfellow begins by spelling out, in impressive and telling detail, how the church has become mired in secular idolatries and ideologies, both economic and political. Then, in constrast to this situation, he examines Christ's resistance to the temptations of worldly power.

Stringfellow ends his book by emphasizing the meaning of the resurrection as the exercise of the freedom of God and sets forth the victory over death and bondage given in Christ. Only in that gift is the Christian free to offer his own life to the world. Only thus is he "free in obedience."

Author - William Stringfellow

Introducing the Foundation Quartet
by William Stringfellow:
A Private and Public Faith
Count It All Joy
Free in Obedience
Imposters of God



"The conscientious and thoughtful New York attorney who caught my attention more than any other person."
— Karl Barth on William Stringfellow

Count It All Joy by William Stringfellow
Instead of Death by William Stringfellow
The Bishop Pike Affair by William Stringfellow, Anthony Towne
Suspect Tenderness by William Stringfellow, Anthony Towne
Imposters of God by William Stringfellow
A Private and Public Faith by William Stringfellow
Conscience and Obedience by William Stringfellow
A Simplicity of Faith by William Stringfellow
An Ethic For Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land by William Stringfellow
My People is the Enemy by William Stringfellow
The Death and Life of Bishop Pike by William Stringfellow, Anthony Towne
A Second Birthday by William Stringfellow
Dissenter in a Great Society by William Stringfellow
The Politics of Spirituality by William Stringfellow

An Ethic For Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land by William Stringfellow
Count It All Joy by William Stringfellow
Suspect Tenderness by William Stringfellow, Anthony Towne
Imposters of God by William Stringfellow
A Private and Public Faith by William Stringfellow
Instead of Death by William Stringfellow
My People is the Enemy by William Stringfellow
Free in Obedience by William Stringfellow
Conscience and Obedience by William Stringfellow
A Second Birthday by William Stringfellow
A Simplicity of Faith by William Stringfellow
Dissenter in a Great Society by William Stringfellow
The Politics of Spirituality by William Stringfellow