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ISBN 10: 1-59752-477-8
ISBN 13: 978-1-59752-477-3
Pages: 192
Binding: Paperback
Publication Date: 07/01/2006
Division: Wipf and Stock
Series: The William Stringfellow Library
Category: Theology
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Suspect Tenderness
The Ethics of the Berrigan Witness
By William Stringfellow, Anthony Towne
Suspect Tenderness opens with a narrative concerning the capture of Daniel Berrigan, related in his continuing friendship and pastoral relationship with Stringfellow and co-author Anthony Towne. It continues with an examination of the ethical and theological implications of the Berrigan witness, in which middle-class American piety is asked to face the fact that Jesus was a criminal. Stringfellow insists that every state feels threatened by Christ's claim to a moral authority over death, and sees the "community of resistance" as a community of resurrection.
Author - William Stringfellow
Author - Anthony Towne
Introducing the Dissent Trilogy by William Stringfellow
Dissenter in a Great Society
Suspect Tenderness
The Politics of Spirituality
"Because Stringfellow's critique was radically biblical and biblically radical, he was no party-line dissenter. If one marks the current three volumes by their historical moments, they can be identified as responses to incumbent political administrations. Dissenter in a Great Society (1966) illuminates the Lyndon Johnson era. Suspect Tenderness (1971) critiques the Nixon regime. And Politics of Spirituality (1984), in many ways Stringfellow's culminating little opus, responds to the blasphemies of the Reagan administration."
Bill Wylie-Kellermann (from the series foreword)
"These books burn with a holy fervor. They are graced with costly hope; what is impossible in the public arena can be done up close, with a few by a few. There could exist communities of non-betrayal. Its members would gather, open the bible, then scatter to their work. Freed from lust after power or prestige, they would keep the Word of God in a time when few keep any word at all. Keeping the Word, that was the point. Do it then!"
Daniel Berrigan (from the series introduction)
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