The new Yoder / edited by Peter Dula and Chris K. Huebner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dula, Peter, 1970- editor.

Huebner, Chris K., 1969- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theology.

Yoder, John Howard.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 338 p. )

Place of Publication:

Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, [2010]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction / Peter Dula and Chris K. Huebner

Judaism as a free church : footnotes to John Howard Yoder's The Jewish-Christian schism revisted / Daniel Boyarin

The Christian witness in the earthly city : John Howard Yoder as Augustinian interlocutor / Gerald W. Schlabach

John Howard Yoder's systematic defense of Christian pacifism / Nancey Murphy

The war of the Lamb : postmodernity and Yoder's eschatological genealogy of morals / P. Travis Kroeker

Foucault, genealogy, Anabaptism : confessions of an errant postmodernist / Peter C. Blum

Yoder's patience and/with Derrida's Différance / Peter C. Blum

Patience, witness, and the scattered body of Christ : Yoder and Virilio on knowledge, politics, and speed / Christ K. Huebner

On exile : Yoder, Said, and a politics of land and return / Alain Epp Weaver

Memory in the politics of forgiveness / J. Alexander Sider

Traumatic violence and Christian peacemaking / Cynthia Hess

The wild patience of John Howard Yoder : "outsiders" and the "otherness of the church" / Romand Coles

Laughing with the world : possibilities of hope in John Howard Yoder and Jeffrey Stout / Jonathan Tran

Epistemological violence, Christianity, and the secular / Daniel Colucciello Barber

Fracturing evangelical recognitions of Christ : inheriting the radical democracy of John Howard Yoder with the penumbral vision of Rowan Williams / Joseph R. Wiebe

Communio missionis : Certeau, Yoder, and the missionary space of the church / Nathan R. Kerr.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781630874360

1630874361