#william stringfellow

Listening is a rare happening among human beings. You cannot listen to the word another is speaking if you are preoccupied with your appearance or impressing the other, or if you are trying to decide what you are going to say when the other stops talking, or if you are debating about whether the word being spoken is true or relevant or agreeable. Such matters may have their place, but only after listening to the word as the word is being uttered. Listening, in other words, is a primitive act of love, in which a person gives self to another’s word, making self accessible and vulnerable to that word.

The Fall is not, as the biblical literalists have supposed, an event in time; the Fall is the era of time as such - the Fall is the time of time, as it were. Human knowledge is temporal, fallen, and, as St. Paul emphasizes, in bondage to death. Time is the realm of death.

In an American atmosphere heavy-laden with babel, glossolalia bespeaks the rebuke of the Word of God. Ecstatic utterance witnesses the vitality of the Word against the ineptness of blasphemy. Speaking in tongues is a sign of human beings set free by the Word of God from the captivation of official babel and is an encouragement to all persons still oppressed by babel. Within the surveillance of the Antichrist, this spontaneous, unpredictable, unconformable, liberated witness can only be heard as the sound revolution, though, indeed it be a much greater portent than that. This speaking in tongues heralds the doom of Babylon, warns of the judgment impending upon the Antichrist, joins in the jubilation of the heavenly chorus when the great city falls.

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“We pray, ‘Thy Kingdom come,’ and the Kingdom is Jesus Christ, because in Him, as the Lord, man as a sinning man is replaced by a new man.  In Christ’s death, man as sinner, man as alienated from himself, man as prey to death, is done in, finished.  His freedom lies in Jesus Christ - in his death and resurrection.”