ABSTRACT
William Stringfellow was a theologian, an advocate for social reform, and an Episcopal layman. He was an advisor to the first women priests in the Episcopal Church after their irregular ordination in 1974. Stringfellow was one of the most important American theologians of the twentieth century. Stringfellow resisted those threats in light of the victory of life over death in Christ. He challenged the forms and powers of death with a theological critique and personal witness that reached far beyond the issues of his time. The context and meaning of Stringfellow's Christian witness against death is brought into focus by the events that were happening in his life in November 1968. At this time the United States was convulsed by protests against American military involvement in Vietnam and controversy over the civil rights movement. Stringfellow dedicated An Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land to Merton.
