Description: The Heterodox Yoder provides a critical rereading of
Yoder's corpus through his own conviction that discipleship is,
most basically, ethics. Tracing the development of Yoder's
theological foundations through to their final role in redefining
Jewish-Christian and ecumenical relations, this volume explains why
the appropriation and use of the language of politics eventually
constrains Yoder's ethical vision to the point that it reframes
Christianity within the limits of social ethics alone. Because this
vision self-consciously excludes or, at best, relativizes many of
the claims of orthodox Christianity (including but not limited to
the ecumenical creeds), Martens concludes that Yoder's Christian
ethic is best described as heterodox. Endorsements: "" T]here has
been an influx of recent books on Yoder that has ensured that the
significance of his work will continue to be engaged. Most of those
books try to help us better understand Yoder. Martens tries to help
us understand what may be some troubling trajectories associated
with Yoder's work. He has, therefore, written a book that all who
are concerned with the significance of Yoder's work must take
seriously. I confess I remain unconvinced by some of Martens'
criticisms. Nonetheless, this is a book that should be taken
seriously."" --Stanley Hauerwas Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of
Theological Ethics Duke Divinity School "" S]ince his death, the
swell of interest in John Howard Yoder's contributions to Christian
ethics--as seen in the many constructive appropriations of his
work--has shown no signs of dissipating. Dispersion, however, is
finally surfacing with Paul Martens' rather unorthodox reading of
Yoder. . . . By carefully identifying and critically examining in
Yoder's corpus a trajectory toward practices and politics and away
from beliefs and creeds, Martens offers a provocative-and I think
helpful-argument that should stimulate and inform future waves of
scholarship about or indebted to Yoder."" --Tobas Winright
Associate Professor of Theological Ethics Saint Louis University
""Among the excellent studies of Yoder published in recent years,
this one stands out for its controversial yet well-argued thesis.
Like Yoder himself, Martens conceals his considerable knowledge in
a lively style and dislodges fixed assumptions with a light touch.
This book ensures that in his legacy Yoder will remain as resistant
to assimilation as he was in his lifetime, and no one with a stake
in that legacy can afford to ignore it."" --Gerald McKenny
Associate Professor of Christian Ethics, Theology University of
Notre Dame ""This is a soul-wrenching book . . . for its author
above all. John Howard Yoder measured his Church and our world with
unyielding measures of reason and of witness. In The Heterodox
Yoder, Paul Martens holds the words of his beloved John Yoder up to
the same measure. No reading or discussion of Yoder will remain
untouched by the results."" --Peter Ochs Bronfman Professor of
Modern Judaic Studies University of Virginia ""Building on a
persuasive account of key shifts in John Howard Yoder's thinking,
Paul Martens advances a provocative and refreshing thesis: Yoder's
account of the particularity of Jesus Christ as ethical is,
ultimately, heterodox. Yet, rather than reject him, Martens asks
how critical engagement with Yoder might nevertheless help
Christians resist the many temptations of modernity. The Heterodox
Yoder is a lively and important book."" --Jeremy M. Bergen
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Theology Conrad Grebel
University College, University of Waterloo About the
Contributor(s): Paul Martens held a postdoctoral research
fellowship at The University of Notre Dame and currently teaches
Christian Ethics at Baylor University. He has co-edited several
works by John Howard Yoder, including Nonviolence: A Brief History
and Revolutionary Christianity: The 1966 South American Lectures
(Cascade Books, 2012).
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