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Essays engaging with the work of the Mennonite theologian John Howard Yoder, showing his creative insight in a wide range of academic disiplines.
The work of John Howard Yoder has become increasingly influential in recent years. Moreover, it is gaining influence in some surprising places. No longer restricted to the world of theological ethicists and Mennonites, Yoder has been discovered as a refreshing voice by scholars working in many other fields. For thirty-five years, Yoder was known primarily as an articulate defender of Christian pacifism against a theological ethics guild dominated by the Troeltschian assumptions reflected in the work of Walter Rauschenbusch and Reinhold and Richard Niebuhr. But in the last decade, there has been a clearly identifiable shift in direction. A new generation of scholars has begun reading Yoder alongside figures most often associated with post-structuralism, neo-Nietzscheanism, and post-colonialism, resulting in original and productive new readings of his work. At the same time, scholars from outside of theology and ethics departments, indeed outside of Christianity itself, like Romand Coles and Daniel Boyarin, have discovered in Yoder a significant conversation partner for their own work. This volume collects some of the best of those essays in hope of encouraging more such work from readers of Yoder and in hopes of attracting others to his important work.
The work of John Howard Yoder has become increasingly influential in recent years. Moreover, it is gaining influence in some surprising places. No longer restricted to the world of theological ethicists and Mennonites, Yoder has been discovered as a refreshing voice by scholars working in many other fields. For thirty-five years, Yoder was known primarily as an articulate defender of Christian pacifism against a theological ethics guild dominated by the Troeltschian assumptions reflected in the work of Walter Rauschenbusch and Reinhold and Richard Niebuhr. But in the last decade, there has been a clearly identifiable shift in direction. A new generation of scholars has begun reading Yoder alongside figures most often associated with post-structuralism, neo-Nietzscheanism, and post-colonialism, resulting in original and productive new readings of his work. At the same time, scholars from outside of theology and ethics departments, indeed outside of Christianity itself, like Romand Coles and Daniel Boyarin, have discovered in Yoder a significant conversation partner for their own work. This volume collects some of the best of those essays in hope of encouraging more such work from readers of Yoder and in hopes of attracting others to his important work.
Price: $39.95
Pages: 358
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Imprint: Lutterworth Press
Publication Date:
27 October 2011
Trim Size: 5.98 X 8.98 in
ISBN: 9780718892463
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, Christianity, Theology
This is an engaging and important collection which shows promising signs of new ways of responding to and working in conversation with the immensely important and influential work of Yoder. [...] If you have ever wondered what might have happened if Yoder had read postmodern Continental philosophy, or engaged positively with Augustine, or been influenced by post-colonialism, this collection is a must-read.
— Elizabeth Phillips
...an excellent collection of essays.
— Stephen Lawson, Saint Louis University, Reviews
— Elizabeth Phillips
...an excellent collection of essays.
— Stephen Lawson, Saint Louis University, Reviews
Introduction, by Peter Dula and Chris K. Huebner
1 Judaism as a Free Church: Footnotes to John Howard Yoder's The Jewish-Christian Schism Revisited, by Daniel Boyarin
2 The Christian Witness in the Earthly City: John Howard Yoder as Augustinian Interlocutor, by Gerald W. Schlabach
3 John Howard Yoder's Systematic Defense of Christian Pacifism, by Nancey Murphy
4 The War of the Lamb: Postmodernity and Yoder's Eschatological Genealogy of Morals, by P. Travis Kroeker
5 Foucault, Genealogy, Anabaptism: Confessions of an Errant Postmodernist, by Peter C. Blum
6 Yoder's Patience and/with Derrida's Differance, by Peter C. Blum
7 Patience, Witness, and the Scattered Body of Christ: Yoder and Virilio on Knowledge, Politics, and Speed, by Chris K. Huebner
8 On Exile: Yoder, Said, and a Politics of Land and Return, by Alain Epp Weaver
9 Memory in the Politics of Forgiveness, by J. Alexander Sider
10 Traumatic Violence and Christian Peacemaking, by Cynthia Hess
11 The Wild Patience of John Howard Yoder: "Outsiders" and the "Otherness of the Church," by Romand Coles
12 Laughing With the World: Possibilities of Hope in John Howard Yoder and Jeffrey Stout, by Jonathan Tran
13 Epistemological Violence, Christianity, and the Secular, by Daniel Colucciello Barber
14 Fracturing Evangelical Recognitions of Christ: Inheriting the Radical Democracy of John Howard Yoder with the Penumbral Vision of Rowan Williams, by Joseph R. Wiebe
15 Communio Missionis: Certeau, Yoder, and the Missionary Space of the Church, by Nathan R. Kerr
List of Contributors
1 Judaism as a Free Church: Footnotes to John Howard Yoder's The Jewish-Christian Schism Revisited, by Daniel Boyarin
2 The Christian Witness in the Earthly City: John Howard Yoder as Augustinian Interlocutor, by Gerald W. Schlabach
3 John Howard Yoder's Systematic Defense of Christian Pacifism, by Nancey Murphy
4 The War of the Lamb: Postmodernity and Yoder's Eschatological Genealogy of Morals, by P. Travis Kroeker
5 Foucault, Genealogy, Anabaptism: Confessions of an Errant Postmodernist, by Peter C. Blum
6 Yoder's Patience and/with Derrida's Differance, by Peter C. Blum
7 Patience, Witness, and the Scattered Body of Christ: Yoder and Virilio on Knowledge, Politics, and Speed, by Chris K. Huebner
8 On Exile: Yoder, Said, and a Politics of Land and Return, by Alain Epp Weaver
9 Memory in the Politics of Forgiveness, by J. Alexander Sider
10 Traumatic Violence and Christian Peacemaking, by Cynthia Hess
11 The Wild Patience of John Howard Yoder: "Outsiders" and the "Otherness of the Church," by Romand Coles
12 Laughing With the World: Possibilities of Hope in John Howard Yoder and Jeffrey Stout, by Jonathan Tran
13 Epistemological Violence, Christianity, and the Secular, by Daniel Colucciello Barber
14 Fracturing Evangelical Recognitions of Christ: Inheriting the Radical Democracy of John Howard Yoder with the Penumbral Vision of Rowan Williams, by Joseph R. Wiebe
15 Communio Missionis: Certeau, Yoder, and the Missionary Space of the Church, by Nathan R. Kerr
List of Contributors