ABSTRACT
This chapter shows how lawyers thinking moves beyond Stringfellow's faith and into a general understanding of the constitutive anxiety of the poverty lawyer. Stringfellow's concept of the powers of darkness can be understood as a way of grasping the alienating and reifying effects of capitalist markets on human being. The powers of darkness are "the fundamental institution of society: specifically, "property" and "money". The idea of the call or the idea of a vocation as a calling requires the person who feels called to engage in serious self-inquiry that is "more than individualistic insight". The voice of conscience is not a form of moral reasoning that engages in "hypothetical speculations" working out imaginary courses of action and the moral scruples that they might raise. Home, the place from which others are excluded, is where one is with all the others.
