14 November 2008

Apocalypticism, cont'd

This is perhaps a better, while second-hand, synopsis/answer regarding this fellow Stringfellow's setting of the tone for the [post-]modern apocalyptic vision; and, again, I find it interesting that someone who is so relatively uncelebrated by apocalypticists has actually cast such an influence on those of us who would seek to 'borrow' and continue the apocalyptic voice.

In answer to various previous questions here in previous years, this is something of what the 'apocalyptic perspective and voice' is about:



'. . . Stringfellow saw God's creation caught in a dramatic and final battle. Apocalyptic is but the name we give for the struggle to live in accordance with God's good creation as those who no longer have to fear death, baptized as we are into Christ's death and resurrection. We believe that is why Stringfellow was able to challenge our liberal idealism which assumed that if we could just get people of goodwill to work together, somehow we could solve our social problems. He knew that any such "solution" would be far too pale a response to the powers [and principalities] we confront. Yet exactly because he knew we were part of an apocalyptic drama, he never gave up hope despite his clear-eyed vision of the terrors of the struggle. The question was not whether as Christians we were going to accomplish much, but whether we were going to live faithfully.'
-From 'Creation as Apocalyptic' in Stanley Hauerwas's Dispatches from the Front

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"The question was not whether as Christians we were going to accomplish much, but whether we were going to live faithfully.'" Yes. When I have tried to boil down my concerns to a "solution", the interconnectedness of everything spirals into "simply Being", but this Being is one which seems to not be simple in the idea of an entity from which all has been stripped away, but an entity into which all has been woven in as one. Being does not seem to be only nominally represented by the interconnection, but to have the interconnectedness exist as an essential representative extension of it. I have come to understand that my living faithfully in "simple Being" then seems to become the most direct method of participation in synchronous Being, represented by and integrated with action but from which my action cannot divorce. [My father tends to have a much clearer view of this than I in his calm reassurance throughout my life that day to day living matters so much more than my frustrations over my inability to convert evils into "problems" with accompanying step by step solution. ]

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